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Lobby group supports new minimum wage plan
Lobby group supports new minimum wage plan

BBC News

time22-07-2025

  • Business
  • BBC News

Lobby group supports new minimum wage plan

A business lobby group has said it supports the new "direction of travel" in the Isle of Man's minimum wage calculations but has raised concerns about how the new benchmark is week, Tynwald approved a move to base the minimum wage from a figure of 66% of median earnings on the island. The Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce said the new methodology was an "important step" towards a more "consistent and evidence-based wage-setting system". However, it warned that using a benchmark based on both the public and private sector could "distort outcomes". The lobby group said that public sector pay was "significantly higher and not tied to profitability or investment". 'Economic viability' It argued that a high minimum wage has a "cascading effect" on the median "reinforcing upward wage spirals".The change would see the current hourly minimum wage rate of £12.25 increased to about £13.46 in April, a slightly lower rate than the living wage which stands at £ meant that a previous bid to align the minimum wage with the living wage was Chamber of Commerce had argued that the previous plans to align the minimum wage and living wage this year would have a "significant impact" on the new approach "supports fair pay while maintaining economic viability for employers," the group executive Rebecca George said: "We support the direction of travel, but we also want to ensure that this policy shift results in fair, workable outcomes for businesses and employees alike." Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal did not know husband's trust donated to Advance
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal did not know husband's trust donated to Advance

ABC News

time14-07-2025

  • Politics
  • ABC News

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal did not know husband's trust donated to Advance

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal when she says she did not know about a $50,000 donation a trust linked to her husband John Roth made to right-wing political lobby group Advance. Ms Segal had on Sunday distanced herself from the donation that was made public in a report by The Klaxon. That report cited Australian Electoral Commission donation records from the 2023/24 reporting period. Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) records list Ms Segal's husband and his brother Stanley Roth, as directors of Henroth Investments Pty Ltd. "No one would tolerate or accept my husband dictating my politics, and I certainly won't dictate his," Ms Segal told SBS on Sunday. Advance — formerly Advance Australia — is a right-wing lobby group that has previously accused left-leaning politicians of being "mostly on the same side as Hamas" when it comes to the war in Gaza. "I wasn't aware of it until the reports came out," Mr Burke told 7.30 of the donation. "Advance is an appalling organisation ... and I have no time for that organisation at all. "It's a long time since we've been a country where you would blame a woman for decisions of her husband. And so with that in mind, I don't think she's answerable for her husband. One of the recommendations from Ms Segal's recently released report into antisemitism is to withhold funding from universities that fail to reduce hatred against Jewish students. Ms Segal, who was appointed to the envoy role by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last year, said her plan was a comprehensive, long-term approach to combating antisemitism and introducing a strategy already in place in many other nations. "We cannot hope to really abolish antisemitism, but we can push it to the margins," Ms Segal said. Asked if he felt the government would accept the recommendation to strip funding Mr Burke said that was not the goal. "The objective here is not to be stripping funding, it's not to be cancelling people, the objective is actually to never fall foul of the need to make sure that we're combating antisemitism," Mr Burke said. "Over the last year-and-a-half, we have seen a spike in antisemitism in Australia. Watch 7.30, Mondays to Thursdays 7:30pm on ABC iview and ABC TV Do you know more about this story? Get in touch with 7.30 here.

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