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Despite high hopes, multi-employer bargaining is unlikely to 'get wages moving'

By Mark Wooden, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne

One of the key measures announced to “get wages moving” in the wake of the federal government’s jobs summit was greater access to multi-employer agreements.

At the moment, most workers get their wages adjusted by bargaining with individual employers, so-called “enterprise bargaining”.

Others rely on awards and the minimum…

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