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Mar 7, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2019

Question: why is the Federal Government refusing to renew equal pay funding for the female-dominated community sector?

A thread... Image 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. Image