Several Australian employer groups have backed the views of the Australian Treasury, the Henry Tax Review, the Grattan Institute, and the Parliamentary Budget Office, who claim that raising Australia’s superannuation guarantee (‘compulsory superannuation’) from 9.5% to 12% would lower wage growth. From The AFR:
Motor Trades Association of Australia chief executive Richard Dudley, whose industry body represents 400,000 workers and which appoints employer representative board directors to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union-backed $10bn MTAA Super fund, said a higher savings rate would mean lower wage rises…
“In the current fiscal climate … which has constrained spending and low wage growth, it is anticipated this situation will be further and negatively compounded through even less wage growth due to employers factoring in an additional super payments”…
