Pay Equity

The Quarterly Employment Survey has just released figures about the Gender Pay Gap and it’s not pretty – it has jumped from 11.94% in March last year to 12.81%. In times of recession, women seem to be hit harder than men, an issue which the Minister of Women’s Affairs and the National Government have completely ignored.

Well, actually, maybe if they’d just ignored it instead of actively working to set the Pay Equity fight back a few years we wouldn’t have this problem.

But anyway, I digress into political attack, so I leave it open for discussion. Here are some responses to the figures:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1008/S00037/widening-pay-gap-shows-nats-lack-of-commitment.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1008/S00026/gender-pay-gap-increases.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1008/S00036/gender-pay-gap-widens-under-national.htm

La Socialista

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