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Labor's pay policy merely hints at helping low paid workers rather than actually doing it

  • Written by Eugene Schofield-Georgeson, Lecturer, UTS Law School, University of Technology Sydney
Labor's pay policy merely hints at helping low paid workers rather than actually doing itThe pay gap between the chief executive and the typical worker in firms such as BHP is about 100 to 1.Shutterstock

There is little dispute the pay packages for leading chief executives have reached gross and excessive proportions while the wages of poorly paid Australians have stagnated.

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