Mike's Minute: Reform for the Pay Equity Act is good
Kristine Bartlett was, to many, a hero.
She was a very likeable woman. She was a caregiver who argued her work was undervalued and she deserved more.
The Labour Party who love “feels” and are not exactly unfamiliar with the unions leapt all over it and the Equal Pay Act 2022 was born.
The downside was how to compare this so-called "underpaid work" like in nursing homes, where women dominate and a comparable profession dominated by men.
They decided at the time comparing mechanics to rest home workers made sense, even though it didn’t, and doesn’t.
That's why Brooke van…
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