About this Submission

Australian Business Industrial (ABI) recommends that the Minimum Wage Panel of the Fair Work Commission (MWP) increase the National Minimum Wage and award wages for 2013-14 by no more than a uniform 1.2 per cent (which equates to $7.30 per week for the National Minimum Wage). This recommendation is based on the implications of changes in economic conditions and suggestions about the transparency of MWP’s methodology for assessing economic conditions and the relative needs of the low paid.