30/01/2012
WEL Pre-Budget Submission
WEL Australia has now completed a submission which outlines WEL’s policy recommendations for the 2012 – 2013 Federal Budget. The submission covers the following policy areas: Clean Energy Children’s Services Employment Tax Reform and Superannuation Affordable Housing You can download the full submission here.
25/07/2011
Women’s organisations support underpaid community workers
WEL Australia, the Women’s Equity Think Tank and the National Pay Equity Coalition have just lodged their final joint submissions in the ongoing equal pay case. The case concerns wage rates in the social, community, home care and disability services industry. Fair Work Australia has already found that work in the female-dominated industry is undervalued, [...]
18/07/2011
WEL welcomes federal government commitment to fund wage increases of equal pay case
WEL NSW has welcomed the federal government’s recent announcement to “meet its responsibilities” in respect of any phased pay increases that result from the Social and Community Sector (SACS) equal pay case currently before Fair Work Australia. In its further written submission to Fair Work Australia last week, the government states that “the Commonwealth will [...]
23/03/2010
WEL’s Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2009–10
Taking into account the failure of the Australian Fair Pay Commission to make an adjustment in 2009, WEL has recommended that the Minimum Wage Panel grant an increase of 9 per cent in the minimum wage. Such an increase would help to restore a minimum rate that is fair and bears a reasonable relation to living [...]
Senators, don’t use women’s needs as an excuse for bad policy
Question to Minister Jenny Macklin, Senators Trish Crossin, Claire Moore, et al: since when did feminism condone compulsory loss of rights for categories of women, for example a sole parent, because some of them may have needed “protection”?
