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By Kate Southam, CareerOne editor
November 24, 2009 12:55pm
A new pay equity unit should be set up to punish employers who pay men and women differently for doing the same job, according to a report tabled in Federal Parliament last night.
The Making it Fair report is the result of 17 months of work by the House Employment and Workplace Relations Committee chaired by Labor MP Sharryn Jackson.Speaking today, Ms Jackson said it has been 40 years since equal pay was legislated by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and more than 20 years since the Affirmative Agency was set up later replaced by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency.“And yet the gender pay gap has been growing since 1992 for a range of reasons including far fewer women in the top income bracket and a growth in women taking on part-time work,” she said. The committee found women in Australia are being paid up to 17 per cent less than men and that sectors dominated by female workers such as child care and aged care were characterised by low salaries and that had to change.
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