Aussies And Americans Are Comparing Minimum Wage Rules

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“Australia’s minimum wage is higher because our unions are better at negotiating than the government. We also don’t enforce tipping culture, like the USA, because it’s not the customer’s job to pay employee wages. The business hired the employee, so the business must pay the employee.”

“Having spent many years working in hospitality in my student days, we used to have American tourists complaining our restaurants are so expensive here, but at the end of the day once you crunch the numbers and factor in exchange rates it’s actually fairly similar — we just don’t pretend it’s cheaper by not including taxes and tips, etc.”

—u/schottgun93