The Living Wage Case: How Tight Were the Economic Constraints on Equity?

Suzie Jones and Tim Harcourt ()

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1997, vol. 8, issue 1, 156-167

Abstract: The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) brought down the first stage of the ‘Living Wage’ Case decisions on 22 April 1997. For the first time in nearly 30 years the decision was split. This article analyses the economic rationale for both majority and minority decisions and argues that the majority decision was overly cautious and conservative in its assessment of the economic constraints on the Commission's capacity to award a pay increase to low paid workers.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/103530469700800112

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