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The Fair Work Commission announced in its annual review that minimum wages would rise from July 1 to 640.90 AU dollars per week (594 U.S. dollars), an increase of 18.70 AU dollars (17.33 U.S. dollars).
The decision will directly affect about 1.5 million Australians on award wages and strikes a middle ground between the rival pay demands of employers and workers.
Representatives of both groups criticized the decision, the former saying the increase would harm business and job prospects, the latter saying the pay rise was insufficient for those on lower incomes when the economy was generally performing strongly.
Commission president Justice Iain Ross said the decision reflected next to zero growth in the real value of award wages at a time when other employees in the country had enjoyed substantial pay increases.
"The deterioration in the relative living standards of award- reliant workers; the needs of the low-paid; the recent widespread improvement in labor productivity growth; the historically low levels of real unit labor costs; and the absence, in aggregate [url=http://www.af1pascher.fr/...che-homme-femme.html]Nike Air Force 1 Mid 07 Blanche Homme Pas Cher[/url] , of cost pressures from the labor market are all factors favoring a real increase in minimum wages," he said.
The country's peak union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), had sought a weekly rise of 27 AU dollars (25 U.S. dollars) but employers said they would not be able to afford an increase of more than 8.50 (7.88 U.S. dollars) AU dollars a week.
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"Many industry sectors and particularly those exposed to import competition are experiencing very tough business conditions," AIG chief executive Innes Willox said in a statement.
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) said the increase would "destroy" job opportunities.
"There is no generosity in raising wages to the point where people can't find work when they need it," ACCI chief executive Kate Carnell said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Australian Retailers Association executive director Russell Zimmerman said it would prompt many businesses to sack staff.
"The retail industry is more reliant on pay scales than any other industry, and also suffers a highly disproportionate effect in minimum wage increases ... due to deregulated hours and penalties across all retail awards [url=http://www.af1pascher.fr/nike-sf-air-force-1.html]Nike SF Air Force 1 Femme Pas Cher[/url] ," he said in a statement.
Unions, however, point to the widening gap between the minimum wage and average earnings and warn Australia could follow the United States' experience of creating a class of "working poor."
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver said the decision was particularly unfair given national accounts figures showed stronger than expected economic growth.
"Hardworking Australians are not benefiting from the strong economy and they don't stand to benefit from the federal budget," he said.
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Acting national secretary David O'Byrne said with the co- payments for visits to the doctor and an increase in fuel prices announced in the Abbott Government's first budget last month, the poorest paid workers would suffer.
"Every time they go to a doctor, every time they put petrol in their car, they are being hit by this federal government with increased cost of living," he said.
"This minimum wage decision does not only not deal with that it barely keeps pace with inflation."
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