Equal Pay Day 2019 - NTEU calls time on stagnating gender pay gap

The NTEU today backed calls by the ACTU for the Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter to address the pervasive and ongoing inequality for women at work in his upcoming review of the Fair Work Act, given the failure of any improvements in the gender pay gap. 
According to data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (collated in 2018), the national gender pay gap, which is calculated on the difference in average weekly full-time base salary earnings for men and women, is 14.0% (barely unchanged from 14.1% the previous year), which is a difference of $241.50 per week. In terms of income, that data shows that, on average, women working full-time earned $1484.80 while men working full-time earned $1726.30. More...