PHOTO: Coonamble accountant Geoff Secombe says the recent wage increase could impede the economy, rather than strengthen it.
OVER 2.5 million Australian workers, including those in NSW are set to receive a wage increase over the next few months.
While unions and the new federal government have praised the move, local business owners wonder if priorities are in the right place.
On Wednesday 15 June, the Fair Work Commission announced that it would raise the National Minimum Wage by 5.2 per cent and modern award wage rates . . .
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