{"id":15369,"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinnacle-people.ap.applyflow.com\/hospitality-award-wage-increase-delayed-until-february-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"hospitality-award-wage-increase-delayed-until-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/hospitality-award-wage-increase-delayed-until-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitality Award Wage Increase Delayed Until February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe Fair Work Commission has just announced that the Minimum Wage will increase by 1.75% (National &amp; across Modern Awards) for 2020. This means the national minimum wage will rise by $753.80 a week or $19.84 per hour from July 1.&nbsp; The decision comes amidst a significant downturn in Australia&#8217;s economy, driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lingering effects of bushfires in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe increase this year will be substantially lower than that awarded in previous years due to the marked changes in the economic environment and tax-transfer systems, and including the potential threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has not been consistent across sectors of the economy and affecting some industries harder than others, different operative dates for different groups of modern awards will apply as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Award Group Operative Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>START DATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>INDUSTRY SECTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGroup 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1<sup>st<\/sup> July 2020<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAged Care, Frontline Health Care and Social Assistance workers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTeachers and childcare services<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOther essential services<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGroup 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1<sup>st<\/sup> November 2020<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tConstruction<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tManufacturing<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGroup 3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1<sup>st<\/sup> February 2021<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAccommodation and Food Services<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tArts and recreation services<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAviation<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRetail Trade<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTourism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t#employmentlaw #minimumwage #hr #payroll #fairwork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair Work Commission has today issued its Annual Wage Review decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}