The Fair Work Ombudsman this year reported almost $600 000 in unpaid wages for workers and businesses across the popular food precincts of North Hobart.
Wage theft has been a prominent issue in recent years, and many successful court cases have been taken against hospitality businesses, particularly restaurants.
At the federal level we have the Liberals and Labor lining up to entrench wages inequality in this country and hand massive tax cuts to the rich..
We had the minister there, who unarguably has made some intemperate remarks, beg Opposition members not to egg on the unions.
Treasurer Gutwein’s approach to public sector wage negotiations has been in bad faith since day one.
We will be supporting this motion supporting the unions' collective campaign to have good-faith negotiations and for the wages cap to be scrapped.
The Minister for Health made what can only be construed as some misleading statements in the House yesterday about the question I asked him in question time.
The Premier believes that members of parliament deserve up to a 2.4 per cent pay increase.
The Tasmanian Industrial Commission’s recommendation to increase MPs’ pay by almost 11% is completely out of step with community expectations.
The appalling mishandling of the public sector budget cuts has resulted in a serious break down of communication.
