Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — Minimum Wage in Australia. [ARTICLE]

Minimum Wage in Australia.

The special boards appointed’ under the Victorian factories and shopa acts have determined that the lowest rates of wages to be paid to any person engaged in the preparing of shirts and collars shall be 4d. an hour, and that the lowest wage in the furniture trade shall be Is. an hour, instead of 7s. 6d. per day of eight hours, which was the rate previously fixed, and that the lowest wage paid to any female with over four year** experience in the furniture trade shall De 20s* per week of 48 hours.