Greens employment and workplace relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that Labor is talking big on inequality but won\u2019t back it up with action. Mr Bandt said the Greens will seek to amend Labor\u2019s industrial relations legislation in the Senate to ensure the minimum wage is at least 60% of median earnings.
\n\u201cWe need to change the law so that if you work full-time, you\u2019re not in poverty.
\n\u201cJust like their position on Newstart, where Labor says the rate is too low but refuses to back the Greens\u2019 call to lift it by $75 per week, Labor\u2019s talk about inequality means nothing without action.
\n\u201cWhen Labor is in government and puts its industrial relations legislation to Parliament, the Greens will amend it in the Senate to ensure the minimum wage is at least 60% of median earnings.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Greens have led the push in Parliament to make the minimum wage 60% of the full time median wage. It\u2019s time Labor followed our lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens employment and workplace relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that Labor is talking big on inequality but won\u2019t back it up with action. Mr Bandt said the Greens will seek to amend Labor\u2019s industrial relations legislation in the Senate to ensure the minimum wage is at least 60% of median earnings. \u201cWe need … Continue reading “Greens challenge Labor to \u2018walk the walk\u2019 on living wage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}