Mike's Minute: The pay equity changes are in muddied water

The SME Stream · May 14, 2025 · 2m

Here is another example of the way the pay equity game is played by the media.

If you choose not to call a minister the c-word, you run a headline like this - "Ministers set to take big pay rises right after wiping 33 pay equity claims".

That’s the headline in Newsroom. It is dishonest in its inference.

It's emotive and it misrepresents what is happening. In that is the Government's battle to try and convince the casual observer there is merit in what they have done in changing the law.

First, a minister's pay and an equity claim are two completely different things.

Second, a minister's…