Business leaders lambast Labor’s ‘living wage’

Business owners have angrily hit back at the suggestion that the minimum wage should rise to become a “living wage”, but Labor is yet to detail what such a rise would actually look like.

by | 12 Mar, 2019

ASIC cancels AFS licence of Jade Capital and bans one director

Speaking at a business summit in Sydney on Wednesday (6 March), Bill Shorten said that the existing minimum wage “is nowhere near a living wage”, and declared the upcoming federal election to be “a referendum on wages”.

Read more at MyBusiness.

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