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WGEA issues guidance for new reporting obligation

The WGEA has published a menu of gender equality targets that employers with 500 or more employees can draw from in preparation for next year's lodgement deadline, along with a "workflow" timeline, selection guidance, and list of frequently asked questions and their answers.

Bench rules on gender undervaluation in feminised awards

Pharmacists will receive a 14.1% pay boost after a much-anticipated ruling by a FWC expert panel that scrutinised gender undervaluation, while employees under four other awards covering health professionals, disability services and daycare will have to wait for increases of up to 35% as questions of funding and new classifications are further investigated.

Roundtable advocates leave for casuals, 52 weeks PPL

Australia "remains a global laggard" on work/family benefits and the next federal government should extend paid parental leave to 52 weeks, split carers and personal leave into separate 10-day entitlements, and investigate extending personal/carers and annual leave to casual workers, according to an academic group's report.

Labor to back and fund revamp for SCHADS award

The ASU has welcomed an Albanese Government commitment "to support pay increases and better career pathways" for community and disability workers if re-elected, with Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt pledging funding for a workforce project to update the SCHADS Award.

Canberra funds aged care work value rise: & more

Canberra funds aged care work value rise:; AIPA eligibility expanded; and 230,000 more permanent jobs under Albanese: ACTU.

Few employers meeting gender gap target: WGEA

Less than a quarter of private sector employers have an average gender pay gap within the target range, but 56% have reduced their gap, according to expanded, searchable WGEA data from the second year of public pay gap reporting.

Call for guidance on equality targets for big employers

A Senate inquiry is calling for guidance on what will qualify as a "reasonable excuse" for failing to comply with a Bill requiring employers with 500 or more workers to set new publicly-tracked gender equality targets that could determine eligibility for government contracts, while the Greens want to lower the threshold to 100 or more employees.

BHP, Rio targeted in discrimination class actions

BHP and Rio Tinto are facing class actions accusing them of failing to protect women who worked for them and their contractors against sexual assault, discrimination and harassment over the past 20 years.

Parliament passes Bill tying childcare pay rises to funding

The Albanese Government's legislation to link its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is reflected in workers' wages, has passed parliament.

Bill will require large employers to set gender equality targets

In a bid to further reduce the gender pay gap, the Albanese Government has introduced a Bill that will require employers with 500 or more workers to set new gender equality targets, with their progress publicly available on the WGEA website and compliance required to be eligible for Government contracts.

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