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Dec 14, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read Read on X
5 urgent actions to build back better and fairer for working women (and to spark a thriving economy) in 2022. A thread from us (me and ⁦@ElizabethHill00⁩ ⁦@Sydney_Uni⁩ in the @guardian today). 1/6 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
First: provide the high quality flexible working options that employees need and want. There is skyrocketing demand if designed properly it will boost participation. We don’t mean dead end ‘bad flex’ 2/6
Second: build good, secure jobs into the organisation, supply chain and labour market. Highly feminised jobs in care, health, education need urgent improvement 3/6
Third: design mutually supportive work and care regimes. Currently they clash, leaving working women weary and whiplashed - especially after a rough 2 pandemic years (2021 worse than 2020) 4/6
Fourth: if you really value women - pay them properly and provide meaningful career paths to reward them. Enough lip service, time to value women’s contribution to our economy properly. Women don’t want to be cheap or undervalued labour any more 5/6
Fifth and finally: urgent work is needed to build respect for women at work. @Kate_Jenkins_ and our fierce young leaders (like @BrittHiggins_ and @TamePunk) have helped the women of Australia to say that we’ve had #enough of disrespect, violence and harassment. #Actiontime.

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Apr 3, 2022
🧵 We’ve lost a lot of understanding of how IR works in Australia. An award increase via a full bench of the FWC increases the legal minimum paid to employees in a sector. #insiders 1/
Government can (and in my view, *should*) express a view in such cases. The FWC will take into account commitments made by government. Because they are effectively the funder 2/
In 2012 - in another major decision, but under a different section of the Act (equal remuneration then v work value now) in 2012. The federal government committed to fund outcomes for community service workers. 3/
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#equalpayday today. Full time working women in Australia earn 14% less than full time working men.
There’s a lot we can do about the #genderpaygap. Here’s a start. 1. Better value the work done in highly feminised occupations. Workers in the health and care professions perform enormously skilled and economically important work. They are underpaid. #paythemmore 1/
2. Organisation leaders should undertake a gender pay #audit to diagnose #genderpaygap drivers. @wgea has great resources for this. Because this is such a pervasive problem, there will be issues, be open to that and #actonthedata 2/
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May 13, 2020
Very sad today that academics at our wonderful universities are having to work out whether to back @NTEUNational and VC proposals to take significant pay cuts to sandbag jobs. 1/?
I’m also extremely angry. The reason staff are having to make these choices is because the federal government changed the rules THREE TIMES to keep unis out of #JobKeeper (never forget that peeps 🤓) 2/?
I’ve read the proposal and I’ve been thinking it over all day. I’ve also watched people (from in the sector and outside) having slings at colleagues and our union here all day. That is really (additionally) pissing me off (sorry, rarely swear on twitter, less so irl) 3/?
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