Source: PSA
Representatives from the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA) will submit at the second hearing of the People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity tomorrow.
The PSA is New Zealand’s biggest trade union, representing over 95,000 workers from across the public service, health, and community sectors.
Until May, when the coalition Government retrospectively cancelled all pay equity claims in train, the PSA was progressing 14 claims, with another two set to raise and five that were due or overdue for review.
PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons and Assistant Secretary Alex Davies will present on why the union believe the law changes rushed through under urgency in May are unworkable and will set back women-dominated sectors by decades.
“The changes to the Equal Pay Act were rushed through, under the cover of darkness, and are a massive betrayal to working women in Aotearoa,” Fitzsimons says.
“It was constitutional vandalism and wage theft on a historic scale.”
The PSA has been fighting against gender-based pay discrimination since 1914, when the first PSA Conference passed a remit that said that female employees of the same competence as men will receive “equal treatment as to pay and privileges”.
What: The PSA to present to the People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity.
Who: PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons and Assistant Secretary Alex Davies.
When: 9:46am-10:01am, 13 August.
