Bill
Fair Work Amendment (A Living Wage) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2018-12-04. (s) BANDT, Adam, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Adam Bandt
- Portfolio
- (s) BANDT, Adam, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-06-25
- second reading — 2018-06-25
- other — 2018-12-04
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-06-25.
This bill would raise Australia's lowest legal pay rate to a level defined as a living wage.
The Fair Work Commission would set a phase-in schedule of up to six years and publish it, then conduct annual reviews with possible departures only in exceptional circumstances.
The target is 60% of the median full-time weekly earnings calculated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- Increase the national minimum wage to 60% of the median full-time weekly wage.
- Require the Fair Work Commission to determine a phase-in period no longer than six years.
- Require the Fair Work Commission to publish a timetable for the phase-in.
- Oblige the Fair Work Commission to consider factors such as reducing inequality and economic conditions in setting the timetable.
- Allow the Fair Work Commission to deviate from the planned phase-in only in exceptional circumstances during annual wage reviews.
Low-paid employees and their employers, the Fair Work Commission, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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