ACCER Post Budget Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2017 - 2018
11 April 2018
The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations has told the Fair Work Commission that the minimum wage is “manifestly inadequate” and hundreds of thousands of families are living in or threatened by poverty.
The ACCER has told the Fair Work Commission that its view on wage levels is based on Catholic social teaching, which holds that workers “have the right to wages that will support themselves and their families at a decent standard of living”.
It has argued that this right is an internationally recognised human right and that it is also recognised in the minimum wages provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009, under which the national minimum wage and award minimum wage rates are set.
The national minimum wage, as it is currently set, is not delivering that standard of living and low-income families are suffering as a result, ACCER explained. Evidence presented in the ACCER submission shows that a full-time job on the national minimum wage in the average two-parent family with children leaves the family in poverty and that the average sole-parent family is left even worse off, because most sole parents have to work part-time.
“The level and depth of child poverty in working families is scandalous,” the ACCER submission says.
Read the full submission: ACCER Post Budget Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2017-18
The Australian Catholic Bishops Confrenece issued a media release expressing the views of the ACCER.
Annual Wage Review 2017 - 2018: ACCER Submission in Reply
9 April 2018
ACCER lodged its Sumbission in Reply and Response to Questions on Notice today.
You can read the full submission here ACCER Sumbission in Reply and Response to Questions on Notice
ACCER Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2017 - 2018
13 March 2018
The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations (ACCER) seeks the following orders by the Fair Work Commission (FWC):
- The National Minimum Wage (NMW) be set at $735.00 per week and $19.35 per hour.
- Award wage rates up to the C10 award classification rate be increased by $32.00 per week and award wage rates award wage rates above the C10 rate be increased by 3.9%.
- No award rate shall be less than the NMW.
This submission contends that the current level of the NMW is manifestly inadequate and does not comply with the requirements of the Fair Work Act. The NMW is intended to be the basis upon which award wage rates will be set so as to reflect the skills, responsibilities and circumstances of the work covered by awards and their work classifications. The claimed amount for the NMW is an increase of $40.10 per week over the current level of the NMW and $8.10 per week more than the claim in respect of award wages for lower paid workers. The amount claimed for lower paid award rates is designed to provide lower paid workers with a relatively greater increase than that applied to higher paid workers on the basis that it provides relatively more to those most in need. ACCER seeks the adjustment of the NMW over a period of time.
Read the full submission: ACCER Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2017-2018