Fair Work Commission

Introduction

In its October 2006 Minimum Wage Decision, the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) decided to:

• increase the standard Federal Minimum Wage by $0.72 (to $13.47 an hour)
• increase basic periodic rates of pay in all Australian Pay and Classification Scales (Pay Scales) by $0.72 up to $18.42 per hour (i.e. up to around $700 per week based on a standard 38 hour week), and
• increase basic periodic rates of pay in all Pay Scales above $18.42 per hour by $0.58 (i.e. above around $700 per week based on a standard 38 hour week).

The increases flowed on to junior employees, employees to whom training arrangements apply, employees with disabilities and basic piece rates of pay. The decision took effect from 1 December 2006.

Decisions

• Wage-Setting Decision No 2/2006 (PDF)
• Wage-Setting Decision and Reasons for Decision October 2006 (PDF)

Submissions

• ACROD (PDF 1 MB)
• ACT Children's Services Association (PDF 44 KB)
• ACT Government (PDF 241 KB)
• Adelaide Mushrooms (PDF 46 KB)
• Aged and Community Services Australia (PDF 30 KB)
• Anglican Church of Tasmania (PDF 47 KB)
• Anonymous (PDF 417 KB)
• Association for Good Government – ACT Branch (PDF 116 KB)
• Association of Competitive Employment (PDF 155 KB)
• Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (PDF 203 KB)
• Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia – Pharmacists' Division (PDF 213 KB)
• Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations (ACCER) (PDF 504 KB)
• Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI):
  • Executive Summary (PDF 630 KB)
  • Part 1 Introduction (PDF 715 KB)
  • Part 2 Outcome of the 2006 Review (PDF 716 KB)
  • Part 3 Implementation & Timing (PDF 636 KB)
  • Part 4 Guiding Principles (PDF 542 KB)
  • Part 5 New legislation – new approaches (PDF 455 KB)
  • Part 6 Approaching economic and labour market consideration (PDF 81 KB)
  • Part 7 State of the national economy (PDF 334 KB)
  • Part 8 Minimum Wages – Effect on the Economy (PDF 771 KB)
  • Part 9 Minimum Wages – Effect on the Less Well Off (PDF 417 KB)
  • Part 10 Incomes and Expenditures of the Lower Paid (PDF 145 KB)
  • Part 11 Encouraging Workplace Bargaining (PDF 747 KB)
  • Part 12 Pay Equity (PDF 747 KB)
  • Part 13 Non-Considerations (PDF 746 KB)
  • Part 14 UK LPC – Relevance and Lessons (PDF 747 KB)
  • Part 15 Award Review Taskforce (PDF 747 KB)
  • Part 16 Casual Wages (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Part 17 Piece Work Wages (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Part 18 Junior Wages (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Part 19 Trainees and Apprentices (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Part 20 Disability Wages – Open Employment (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Part 21 Disability Wages – Supported Employment (PDF 1.1 MB)
• Australian Childcare Centres Association:
  • Australian Childcare Centres Association submission (PDF 202 KB)
  • Inflation Alert Attachment (PDF 447 KB)
• Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) (PDF 432 KB)
• Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) (PDF 2 MB)
• Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (PDF 62 KB)
• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (PDF 172 KB)
• Australian Government:
  • Overview for AFPC submission (PDF 48 KB)
  • Table of Contents (PDF 140 KB)
  • Chapter 1 Background A new approach to setting minimum wages (PDF 91 KB)
  • Chapter 2 Economic developments (PDF 151 KB)
  • Chapter 3 Minimum wages and their effect on employment (PDF 172 KB)
  • Chapter 4 The task of reducing unemployment (PDF 45 KB)
  • Chapter 5 The impact on regional Australia (PDF 344 KB)
  • Chapter 6 The impact of a minimum wage increase on the welfare of the low paid (PDF 156 KB)
  • Chapter 7 Wage transitions and stepping stones (PDF 379 KB)
  • Chapter 8 Productivity and workplace bargaining (PDF 120 KB)
  • Chapter 9 Minimum wages for junior employees (PDF 382 KB)
  • Chapter 10 Minimum wages for apprentices and trainees (PDF 446 KB)
  • Chapter 11 Minimum wages for employees with a disability (PDF 313 KB)
  • Attachment A – Econtech report (PDF 407 KB)
• Australian Hotels Association:
  • Australian Hotels Association submission (PDF 137 KB)
  • AHA Econtech Report (PDF 262 KB)
• Australian Industry Group (PDF 1.1 MB)
• Australian Mushroom Growers Association (PDF 91 KB)
• Australian Services Union – Victorian Authorities and Services Branch (PDF 172 KB)
• Australian Young Christian Workers (PDF 140 KB)
• Baking Industry Association of Queensland (PDF 77 KB)
• Barrett, S. (PDF 1.2 MB)
• Baxendell, N. (PDF 95 KB)
• Broomhead, J. (PDF 37 KB)
• Brotherhood of St Laurence (PDF 92 KB)
• Buchanan, J. (PDF 216 KB)
• Building Service Contractor Association of Australia (PDF 219 KB)
• Business SA:
  • Business SA submission (PDF 192 KB)
  • Attachment A (PDF 200 KB)
  • Attachment B (PDF 217 KB)
• Caxton Legal Centre (PDF 134 KB)
• Central Coast Unions (PDF 33 KB)
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA (PDF 178 KB)
• Civil Contractors Federation (PDF 30 KB)
• Commission for Children and Young People and the Child Guardian (PDF 72 KB)
• Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union – Construction and General Division (PDF 2.3 MB)
• Cook, L. (PDF 33 KB)
• Disability Discrimination Legal Service (PDF 60 KB)
• Duhigg, R. (PDF 784 KB)
• Employers First (PDF 163 KB)
• Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria (PDF 155 KB)
• Evans, L. (PDF 426 KB)
• Family Services Australia (PDF 109 KB)
• Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (PDF 291 KB)
• G.J. & K. Rocchi (PDF 528 KB)
• Group Training Australia Ltd (PDF 41 KB)
• Gunner, P. (PDF 26 KB)
• Hanover Welfare Services (PDF 145 KB)
• Harfield,D. (PDF 38 KB)
• Harms, R. (PDF 45 KB)
• Hemlof, L. (PDF 150 KB)
• Hotel Motel and Accommodation Association (PDF 91 KB)
• H R Nicholls Society (PDF 334 KB)
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (PDF 404 KB)
• Institute for Private Enterprise (PDF 421 KB)
• Johnston, A. (PDF 62 KB)
• Koch, W. (PDF 1.3 MB)
• Local Government and Shires Association of NSW (PDF 210 KB)
• Master Builders Australia Inc (PDF 637 KB)
• Master Grocers of Australia (PDF 169 KB)
• Master Plumbers and Mechanical Services Association of Australia (PDF 276 KB)
• Master Plumbers Association of NSW (PDF 213 KB)
• McGarvin, J. (PDF 379 KB)
• McNeill, J. (PDF 40 KB)
• Mission Australia (PDF 93 KB)
• Monash University Gippsland Student Union (PDF 80 KB)
• Mungavin, T. (PDF 41 KB)
• Murdoch University Guild of Students (PDF 92 KB)
• National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia Pty Ltd (PDF 89 KB)
• National Employment Services Association (PDF 47 KB)
• National Farmers' Federation (NFF):
  • NFF submission (PDF 299 KB)
  • NFF Attachment A (PDF 211 KB)
  • NFF Attachment B (PDF 2.2 MB)
  • NFF Attachment C (PDF 157 KB)
  • NFF Attachment D (PDF 226 KB)
• National Motor Industry (PDF 199 KB)
• National Retail Association (PDF 78 KB)
• National group of Working Women's Centres (NWWC) (PDF 568 KB)
• NSW Commission for Children and Young People (PDF 45 KB)
• New South Wales Government (PDF 1.5 MB)
• NSW Young Lawyers – Employment and Industrial Law Committee (PDF 941 KB)
• OASIS—Australia (PDF 736 KB)
• Older Women's Network (Qld) (PDF 40 KB)
• Our Voice Committee – National Council on Intellectual Disability (PDF 41 KB)
• People With Disability and NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre (PDF 99 KB)
• Post Office Agents Association Limited (PDF 109 KB)
• Printing Industries Association of Australia (PDF 253 KB)
• Queensland Fruit and Vegetable Growers (Growcom) (PDF 59 KB)
• Queensland Government:
  • Queensland Government submission (PDF 526 KB)
  • Attachment 1 (PDF 478 KB)
  • Attachment 2 (PDF 189 KB)
• Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (PDF 82 KB)
• Restaurant & Catering Australia:
  • Restaurant & Catering Australia submission (PDF 160 KB)
  • Attachment – Econotech Analysis (PDF 234 KB)
• Restaurant and Catering Industry Association of Western Australia (PDF 675 KB)
• Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association – Qld Branch (PDF 219 KB)
• Short individual submissions:
  • A–C (PDF 474 KB)
  • D–F (PDF 19 KB)
  • G–I (PDF 290 KB)
  • J–L (PDF 21 KB)
  • M–O (PDF 22 KB)
  • P–R (PDF 62 KB)
  • S–U (PDF 29 KB)
  • V–Z (PDF 20 KB)
• Small Business Union and ADL Software (PDF 1 MB)
• South Australian Council of Social Service (PDF 120 KB)
• South Australian Government (PDF 339 KB)
• South Australian Wine Industry Association (PDF 190 KB)
• Taliangis, M. (PDF 543 KB)
• Tasmanian Government (PDF 323 KB)
• Tenants Union of Victoria (PDF 319 KB)
• Textile Clothing and Footware Union of Australia (PDF 681 KB)
• Unions NT (PDF 71 KB)
• UnionsWA (PDF 39 KB)
• Uniting Church (PDF 343 KB)
• UnitingCare Australia (PDF 114 KB)
• Victorian Council of Social Service (PDF 129 KB)
• Victorian Government and Northern Territory Government (PDF 329 KB)
• Victorian Multicultural Commission (PDF 106 KB)
• Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW (PDF 33 KB)
• Western Australian Government (PDF 1 MB)
• What Women Want Consortium (PDF 159 KB)
• Whitenoise Productions (PDF 15 KB)
• Women in Social and Economic Research – Curtin University of Technology (PDF 57 KB)
• Women's Electoral Lobby Australia and National Pay Equity Coalition (PDF 78 KB)
• Women's Electoral Lobby (WA) (PDF 48 KB)
• Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc (PDF 64 KB)
• Young Workers Advisory Service (PDF 52 KB)
• Youth Action Policy Association (PDF 187 KB)
• Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (PDF 243 KB)
• Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia (PDF 349 KB)
• Youth Projects Inc (PDF 62 KB)

Research

• An updated profile of the minimum wage workforce in Australia (NILS) (PDF 917 KB)
• Characteristics of employers of the low paid (ACREW) (PDF 686 KB)
• Interactions between wages and the tax transfer system (NATSEM) (PDF 1.3 MB)
• Minimum wages and employment (CLMR) (PDF 442 KB)
• What are the characteristics of the employers of the low paid in Australia (Melbourne Institute) (PDF 3.1 MB)
• Work decisions and the tax transfer system (Colmar Brunton) (PDF 380 KB)