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 Making it Fair
Pay equity and associated issues related to increasing female participation in the workforce. | 26 November 2009 [ full story ]
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Award stripping threatens equal pay
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.’ | 02 February 2006 [ full story ]
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New IR laws kill equal pay bid
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. | 04 November 2005 [ full story ]
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Women and Financial Independence:
While women have always worked whether it be in the paid or unpaid sectors of the society, over the last few decades the financial position of women in Australian society has shifted. An increase in women’s employment in the formal economy, the decline of the idea of family male breadwinner and changes in the social structure have meant that women’s incomes now make a more formal and important contribution to maintaining their own lives and that of their families and sustaining the community in general.
| 22 September 2004 [ full story ]
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Pay Equity Action Week
Public Services International has nominated 4th to the 8th October as Pay Equity International Week. We urge women members to raise the awareness of pay equity and to celebrate the work of women and their trade unions in improving the wages and conditions of women | 20 September 2004 [ full story ]
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Pay Equity – Activism Reaps Rewards
On the 25th March, 2004 the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) held a Pay Equity Conference. The Conference was opened by Karen Batt the Federal President of the Community and Public Sector Union - State Public Services Federation (CPSU-SPSF) and the opening address was conducted by Rob Hulls the Victorian Minister for Industrial Relations. For those attending there was cause for excitement and optimism. The hard work that many women in the Victorian trade union movement had put in was to be rewarded; an investigation into pay equity was to be announced. | 01 April 2004 [ full story ]
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