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Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says that to make sure the Australian workforce is “delivering productivity” people need to remember “this is not only about workers”.
“The thing that I think that people are rightly sick of hearing is that an argument that the key to productivity is somehow to hold back wages,” he told Sky News Australia.
“A nation like Australia should be able to have a better answer to productivity than to say it’s always going to be the worker’s fault.
“We had a decade where wages virtually flatlined in Australia … finally yesterday we started to see annual figures where wages are getting in front of inflation again.”
Mr Burke said it has been “too long” where people have been “held back”.
“The moment that started to happen some of the business communities were saying ‘oh no, need to be careful now because inflation might become the worker’s fault.
“For heaven’s sake – workers getting blamed for productivity, workers getting blamed for inflation.
“The buck can’t always be blamed at people on modest incomes who are just trying to make ends meet.”
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