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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda About 150,000 of some of Australia’s lowest-paid workers in the community sector will benefit from regular pay rises totalling between 23 and 45 per cent from December this year, Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan says.
The first Equal Remuneration Order handed down by Fair Work Australia (FWA) on Friday details how the social and community sector workers – most of them women – will receive their significant pay rises.
The pay increases will take effect over an eight-year phasing-in period with workers receiving equal instalments to their pay over that time.
The order follows FWA’s historic decision on February 1 ordering equal pay for social and community services workers in recognition of the tireless work they do for the Australian community.
“Around 120,000 of the workers covered by the ruling are women, working in difficult jobs including helping people with disability, counselling families in crisis, running homeless shelters and working with victims of domestic violence or sexual assault,” Mr Swan said in a statement.
“These are workers who make a difference every day to the most vulnerable people in our community. They deserve to be properly rewarded for their efforts.”
The Gillard government remains committed to providing additional commonwealth funding of more than $2 billion to pay its share of the wage increase granted by FWA.
“State and territory governments must also commit to funding their share,” Mr Swan said in a joint statement with Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten, Minister for the Status of Women Julie Collins and workplace relations parliamentary secretary Jacinta Collins.
“In coming years, we will need to attract and retain more workers in the services sectors of the economy and especially in ‘caring’ work which has historically been dominated by women.
“Properly valuing caring work and providing decent wages in industries dominated by women is an important part of keeping our economy strong and resilient.”
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