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Australian Workplace Agreements |
Award stripping threatens equal pay 02 February 2006
Call us cynics - but after completely forecasting the destruction of the award system in the award rationalisation process, the reduction of working conditions to five minimum standards and the removal of the setting of a fair minimum wage, the Government in their Award Rationalisation discussion paper asks `How should pay equity issues be addressed by the Taskforce.’ |
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New IR system is bad for women: WEL 26 May 2005
Women’s Electoral Lobby stated today that the new Federal Industrial Relations laws will worsen the wages, conditions and employment rights for women. |
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Equity Issues |
Federal Election information |
Federal Election 2004 22 September 2004
Suzanne Hammond, Federal Women's Industrial Officer, analyses the differences amongst the major parties' positions on industrial relations and the impact on women's jobs and lives. |
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Women of Australia 23 July 2004
The ACTU and the Heat Group have joined forces to survey women in the lead up to the next federal election about their priorities concerning work and family. |
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Health |
International Women’s Day |
Maternity Leave |
Aust and US worst in OECD on maternity 02 April 2002
Australia and the US are the only remaining OECD countries without paid maternity leave laws, after New Zealand passed new legislation last week. |
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HREOC maternity leave report 11 December 2002
This morning Pru Goward, the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination
Commissioner, delivered her final report and recommendations on paid maternity leave. The NSW PSA has welcomed the report - with reservations.
For a fact sheet and copy of the report click on the web page below. |
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HREOC releases maternity leave report 18 April 2002
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has released a report on maternity leave. The media summary is below. The full report is available on http://www.hreoc.gov.au |
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New Parental Leave Standard 06 January 2002
A new standard in Maternity and Paternity Leave benefits has been set in a new enterprise agreement negotiated by the CPSU at the University of Wollongong SRC. The highlight of the deal is for an employee with more than two years service: Maternity leave of 13 weeks on full pay and a further 39 weeks at 60% of salary.
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Pay Equity |
Making it Fair 26 November 2009
Pay equity and associated issues related to increasing female participation in the workforce. |
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New IR laws kill equal pay bid 04 November 2005
The Women's Electoral Lobby is calling on women in the Senate to vote against the IR Bills.
The new IR Bill will increase inequalities in Australian society as employers have more power, in most cases, than employees and this is particularly the case for women, the Women's Electoral Lobby said today. |
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Qld Public Sector |
Trade Union movement |
Women |
Higher ed proposals worse for women 11 September 2003
The so-called reforms to higher education will disadvantage women and may discourage them from seeking university qualifications. This may lead to future labour shortages in areas where women work such as the health care, education and community services sector. |
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New website for working women 11 September 2003
Working women will have access to important health and lifestyle information following the launch of the Labor Council of NSW's Union Women@Work website today. |
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Unravelling the maternity leave debate 01 October 2002
The debate about both paid and unpaid maternity leave is currently taking a lot of space in the media. We’ve all seen the photos of the sensitive new age John Howard grinning at babies, discussions about middle class welfare and more extreme comments of Cabinet members seeing working mothers as `sinful’. Well what is happening now and how has the CPSU-SPSF contributed to the debate? |
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Vale Val Buswell 16 May 2005
Long time equal pay activist Val Buswell died earlier this week. Val worked here entire life for working women’s rights and equal pay. She first intervened in Equal Pay cases in 1950. Even in her later years she organized and encouraged women to fight to improve working conditions. In 1999 she organized the Business Women’s Professional Association to reject the Reith More Jobs Better Pay Bill. |
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Women's Honour Roll 01 September 2004
Sue Hammond, Industrial Officer with the Federal Office of the CPSU-SPSF group, has been placed on the Australian Women's Honour Roll in recognition for her work as a women's industrial relations advocate and a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. |
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Work And Family |
Working Families Incomes |
No tax cut for 85% of Women Workers 30 June 2004
Five in six (85%) working women miss out on tomorrow’s tax cuts. The Howard Government’s latest tax cuts which take effect from tomorrow are so unfair that five in six working women (85%) — all those earning less than $52,000 a year — will miss out on a tax cut.
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parental leave |
A Year's Paid Maternity Leave! 05 September 2001
The CPSU has negotiated ground breaking parental leave provisions for workers at the Australian Catholic University, including up to a year's paid maternity leave for eligible women employees. |
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NSW, S A, QLD Parental leave victory! 16 November 2001
Long term casual staff at universities in three states are now entitled to parental leave thanks to a sustained campaign by the CPSU-SPSF. |
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