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March 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten insists a lift in the superannuation guarantee is not a tax on employers.
He also rejects claims workers will have to pay for increased super contributions through a reduction in pay.
Business has complained that an increase from 9 to 12 per cent will cost employers $20 billion a year.
Mr Shorten says the money will come from “deferred wage increases” worked out between employers and employees during wage negotiations.
“This is not a tax on business,” he told ABC Television on Thursday.
The increase would be phased in through “reasonable instalments” over seven years.
“This means employees and employers have time to adjust and take the increase into account in future wage negotiations,” he wrote in The Australian.
Mr Shorten rejected as “another fallacy” claims that increasing superannuation meant a reduction in wages.
The truth was that superannuation was part of an employee’s total remuneration.
“So, an increase in super means an increase in remuneration or wages by another name.”
Opposition workplace relations spokesman Eric Abetz said the government could no longer maintain the pretence that the superannuation increase would be funded by its new mining tax.
“Bill Shorten has finally acknowledged that the increase … will be paid by foregone wages of Australian workers who are already struggling to make ends meet,” he told reporters in Canberra.
Labor senator Doug Cameron said average workers would be $100,000 better off when they retired.
“I’m sure that over the period of time that this is being phased in, employers in this country can handle (the increase) easily,” he said.
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