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Slashing Penalty Rates Hurts Women And Does Little For The Gender Pay Gap
The Fair Work Commission’s decision to slash penalty rates will hurt millions of workers in the retail, hospitality and fast-food industries. But women will suffer the most.
Women currently comprise 46.2 percent of all employees in Australia and of that number almost half are working part-time, many of them employed in the industries directly affected.
“These are workers who were already in relatively low wage jobs with insecure, irregular schedules,” Dr. Jim Stanford, Director of the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute told The Huffington Post Australia.
Stanford said the decision is an “absolute slap in the face” for people who are already in a tough situation and women will bear a disproportionate amount of that burden.
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• I have to get a second job or become homeless …
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