Viewing entries tagged with 'pay'
Fair Work
How about that! Fair Work Australia has upheld the pay equity claim for community service workers. They also asked the parties to make further submissions related to identifying the extent to which gender has inhibited wage growth in the industry to help them create a remedy to address that situation.
So much to do, so little time!
It's not often that I get upfront and personal in this blog, but lately I have been busier than a lizard being chased by a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, if you'll pardon my addled adages!
Plus 63: women work 63 days more than men
On September 1, 2009 it will be Equal Pay Day again. The first Equal Pay Day was set by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) in 2008.
Paid maternity leave: a fix for pay inequity?
A recent news story about research by Ian Watson showing that whichever way you look at the data, women managers earn about 25% less than their male counterparts is no great surprise to anyone who reads this blog. Apparently between 70-90% of this wage gap cannot be explained, as the characteristics of male and female managers in the research sample are remarkably similar.
Women's pay regresses further
The slippery slope of women's pay has taken another turn for the worse. Not only do we earn less, but the way we are paid also determines how much less we will earn.
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