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By Mark Bahnisch on July 14, 2009
My post last week on the decision to decrease the real wages of those reliant on awards for their pay by the so-called Fair Pay Commission sparked a somewhat heated thread, largely around the contention by some commenters that it [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology | Tagged award rates, awards, Ben Eltham, Economics, employment, Fair Pay Commission, Ian Harper, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, labour economics, minimum wage, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, social inequality, social policy, steve dowrick, unemployment, wages policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Julia Gillard has criticised the decision of the Fair Pay Commission to award no increase in the federal minimum wage. She accurately notes that the decision will have an impact on other workers as well, because the safety net is [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged ACTU, AIRC, ALP, ALP policy, decision, Fair Pay Commission, Fair Work Australia, FPC, Ian Harper, IR reform, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour economics, minimum wage, Rudd government, unemployment, wages policy, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 27, 2009
There’s a bit of chat around the shop today that one of the mooted new stimulus measures the Rudd government might undertake – bringing forward tax cuts and LITO changes for low income earners – could be a way of [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Media | Tagged AIG, corporatism, Fair Pay Commission, Heather Ridout, Ian Harper, Lindsay Tanner, LITO, Rudd govermnent, tax cuts, tax policy, unions, wages policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
The economic news of the day was a fall in the number of jobs advertised – as measured by ANZ – to “recession levels” – the eighth successive monthly drop. A number of economists extrapolated this to an unemployment rate [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ANZ, employment, Fair Pay Commission, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, jobs data, Julie Bishop, Keynes, Liberal Party, Mike Steketee, neoliberalism, social inequality, unemployment |
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