Wages: Government accepts 4.2% to keep up

MPs have received an allowance increase of 4.2 per cent from the Parliamentary Remuneration Tribunal to keep in line with inflation.

Unions New South Wales secretary John Robertson says that if the Government acknowledges that MPs need inflationary increases, why not give them to teachers, nurses and firefighters.

"Everybody has a reason to be angry, particularly those that are currently going through a set of negotiations being told all they're entitled to is a 2.5 per cent increase," he said.

"That was the figure that was in the Budget that was released by the Treasurer just under a month ago and within a month, we see members of parliament being paid increases in allowances and the like of anywhere between 4.1 and 14 per cent."

more