Support the petition to protect pay equity!

When nurses, teachers, midwives, and support workers are valued, our communities are healthier and more connected.

But the National-led Government has gutted the Equal Pay Act. Their changes reverse decades of progress to balance pay for women and people of all genders working jobs that have been undervalued due to sexism. Without warning, the Government has: 

• Cancelled pay equity claims that were already underway, which promised better pay for more than 80,000 teachers.  
• Put up huge barriers to raise a new claim. 
• Withdrawn maintenance of settled claims – which will erode pay for people like nurses, midwives, and hospital administrators. 

The changes entrench gender-based pay discrimination. They lock work that’s important to all of us – like care, education, administration – into being undervalued. They take money from the pockets of workers it’s promised to – who are mostly women, in low-paid mahi.  

The petition calls for:

• Restoring existing pay equity claims – including for teachers, care and support workers, and library assistants. 
• Undo Equal Pay Act changes that make it impossible for people working in female-dominated professions to achieve and keep pay equity.  
• Deliver pay equity settlements to every worker waiting for their claim.