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Umpire under pressure to lift wages for low-paid staff
“We are the working poor … there’s no work/life balance as I can’t afford a life.” Comments such as this, from a full-time retail assistant manager, are being put to the industrial umpire as it weighs up giving Australia’s low-paid a big boost in their pay packets. While high inflation and rising interest rates make this […]