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- Title
The Equal Pay Case--Thirty Years On.
- Authors
Borland, Jeff
- Abstract
In June 1969 the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, acting on a claim from the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Unions began an important period in wage-setting in Australia. Prior to the Equal Pay Case for much of the twentieth century industrial tribunals in Australia had enforced a policy of wage discrimination against female workers. Changes to industrial relations legislation requiring equal pay for equal work were initially enacted by the states, beginning with the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act 1958. For workers covered by federal awards the principle of "equal pay for equal work" was adopted in 1969 in the decision, however, the terms of that decision meant that equal pay could only be implemented where "women did the same work as men and were likely to displace them." In 1972 the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission enlarged the concept of equal pay to encompass "equal pay for work of equal value."
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; WAGE differentials; WOMEN'S employment; EMPLOYMENT discrimination; EQUAL pay for equal work; LABOR laws; LABOR courts
- Publication
Australian Economic Review, 1999, Vol 32, Issue 3, p265
- ISSN
0004-9018
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8462.00114