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Victorian laws hit jobs, but cost impact small

The higher minimum standards in Victoria's new IR bill - which received its second reading yesterday - would boost aggregate wages across all Victorian employees by just 0.21%, but could lead to the loss of 600 jobs in the short term and 1900 over a decade, according to economic analysis released by the State Government yesterday.

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