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State Wage Case 2007 awards $20 increase

Workers on NSW awards will receive a $20 per week increase after the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales handed down the State Wage Case 2007 on 8 June 2007. 

For workers on the lowest rates of pay, there will be a higher increase. This will mean that the minimum that any award rate can pay is rising to $531.40, from the previous minimum of $504.40. 

As usual, the State Wage increases will flow to individual awards on the anniversary of the last State Wage increase on application by the relevant union.

About 250,000 workers in NSW will benefit from these increases, many of them women and part-timers. 

Effect on children's employment

Although the above increases are applied to adult award rates of pay only, children employed under state awards will enjoy proportionate increases in their wages.

As a result of the Industrial Relations (Child Employment) Act 2006 and the No Net Detriment Principles (pdf) made under that Act, the new state award rates of pay for children will be the new benchmarks against which the pay and conditions of children employed under federal agreements will be assessed. 

For further information about any aspect of the State Wage Case, you can contact the Office of Industrial Relations on 131 628.