Working people are cautiously celebrating today’s announcement that the Government will now formally enter discussions into how to lift women’s pay to properly value their work.
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There is an increasing appetite to deal to the persistent gender pay gap, the Council of Trade Unions said today.
The New Zealand Income Survey, out today, shows that average hourly pay rates for women are still 14 percent lower than for men.
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