Low-wage earners are going backwards. Here’s why they deserve an increase in the minimum wage by $1 an hour from July 1.
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Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Chris Wallace, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra.
Both Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison landed themselves onto the sticky paper on Tuesday, as they trudged through this campaign’s penultimate week.
With a monthly minimum wage of 30,000 Naira (US$72), the average Nigerian worker is groaning under the weight of the rising cost of living.
In the face of rising food prices in Nigeria, many salary earners have had to change the quality of foodstuff they buy or opt for cheaper alternatives.
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
Opinion and evidence differ on minimum wage policies, but one thing seems clear – they need to be better integrated within a wider economic support strategy.
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills each month, despite earning wages well above the federal poverty line and holding multiple jobs.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has struck out a legal loophole allowing employers to pay farm workers exploitative piecemeal rates.
Opponents of a new California law that may lift the minimum wage for fast food workers claim it’ll cost jobs. How raising it affects employment is among the most studied issues in all of economics.
Canadian economist David Card won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating that large-scale immigration has no effect on the wages of native-born workers. In doing so, he’s challenged Economics 101.
Before Card, it had been widely accepted that boosting the minimum wage would cost jobs.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
People can die when the federal government doesn’t work well with state and local governments – the COVID-19 crisis showed that. But the Biden administration has signaled an openness to collaboration.
If Canada wants to expand its middle class by substantially improving working conditions in sectors like retail, it must fundamentally reform its labour laws to be similar to Sweden’s.
The Fair Work Commission has shown it can still provide important economic leadership.
If the proposed public sector wage freeze is aimed at improving the lot of lower paid workers, there are better alternatives the government should consider.
The federal budget proposed several measures aimed at reducing poverty. But escaping poverty is extremely difficult and can’t be addressed by quick fixes.
A hike in the minimum wage could jeopardise Australia’s post-COVID recovery, says the Morrison government. That’s an outdated economic idea.
It’s not just about the money. Raising the minimum wage would lead to happier and healthier lives for millions of Americans.
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Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Co-Director, Institute for Economic Justice, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University