As part of its on-going campaign for Pay and Employment Equity TEU is supporting the CTU’s petition to encourage workers to invite Department of Labour inspectors into their workplaces to check the time and wage records of their employers for any discrimination. CTU President, Helen Kelly said “The Ministers of [...]

5 October 2011: World Teachers’ Day – “Teachers for Gender Equality” The last century has seen a transformation in women’s legal rights, with countries around the globe expanding the scope of women’s legal entitlements. Some of these legal entitlements, such as women’s right to equal pay for work of equal [...]

The 2012 World Bank World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, released today, observes that while over half a billion women have joined the global labour market in the last 30 years, “gender gaps in earnings remain stubbornly unchanged in much of the world.”  This is one of four [...]

Women at several TEU branches will be celebrating the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage next Monday. TEU women at both Victoria University and Lincoln University are hosting Suffrage Day breakfasts, while Waiariki polytechnic women have organised a series of events during the day with a strong focus on encouraging women [...]

Statistics released last week show that average hourly earnings for people working in education and training have risen 32 cents to $31.05 in the last year. That rise of 1 percent is well less than inflation for the same period of 5.3 percent. Indeed, total average hourly earnings for people [...]

Barbara Wyeth, national President of The Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota, has welcomed Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty’s pay equity private members’ bill as a small but valuable step towards achieving a living wage for undervalued women workers. “This bill is part of the jigsaw of actions [...]

The Pay Equity Challenge, a coalition of business and community groups and unions, is welcoming Catherine Delahunty’s new Equal Pay Bill as an effective  way of dealing to the wage gap between men’s and women’s pay.  “This bill modernises our approach to equal pay, and will help to give women [...]

On-going equal pay issues for women have prompted a push to modernise employment law from the Green Party.  Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty today released a Member’s Bill to amend the Equal Pay Act that will ensure women have access to information about pay rates in their workplace to test [...]

A Ministry of Education study that looks at the destinations of young New Zealanders after they leave school suggests that young women who did not achieve university entrance are less likely to undertake further study than men. The study looked at 19-year-old students who had left school, who gained some [...]

The president of Massey University’s extramural students’ association, Ralph Springett, is campaigning to change the priorities of the government’s Tertiary Education Strategy, which he says are undermining second chance learners’ access to education. Mr Springett says the strategy does not address the need, particularly for women, for accessible second chance education [...]