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Question: why is the Federal Government refusing to renew equal pay funding for the female-dominated community sector?
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In 2012, Fair Work Australia agreed with @ASUnion that workers in areas like disability support, homelessness outreach, family violence and trauma counselling, etc—which are 80% women—deserved a pay rise.
This is called the equal remuneration order, or ERO.