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Ensuring a better pay deal
Step by step, union members are dismantling the barriers between working women and equal pay, now with the help of a new bill that requires companies to disclose how much they are paying their workers. It comes from years of campaigning against sexist pay secrecy clauses. You and your workmates can make it happen.
Paid parental leave
Our current paid parental leave scheme is one of the worst in the developed world and women have been left to shoulder the load. In the first five years of parenthood, the earnings of working women fall by 55 per cent on average. The lack of income leads to women retiring with far less superannuation than men, often into poverty. Many Enterprise Bargaining Agreements have paid parental leave that has already expanded beyond these boundaries, offering parental leave schemes with more weeks and higher pay for workers at unionised workplaces.
Safety leave
It costs on average $18,000 to leave a violent situation. Access to ten days' paid family and domestic violence leave means women don't have to choose between their safety and a secure job and future. Women workers in their unions have won this right for all Australians after a decade-long campaign - it's now a matter of making sure everyone knows about this life-saving entitlement.
How we’re winning for women
Resources
Download a poster for your workplace
Closing The Super Gap Poster
Print out this poster and put it up in your workplace.
Closing the Paid Parental Leave Gap Poster
Share this poster with your colleagues.
Closing The Secure Work Gap Poster
Print out this poster and put it up in your workplace.
How can you help close the gender pay gap?
01.
Learn
The breakdown of the gender pay gap is not straightforward. Take our quiz to see how well you know the factors underlying the huge disparity between women and men workers in Australia.
02.
Share
See how well your colleagues and friends understand the wage gap and help raise awareness of what unions are doing to close the pay gap.
03.
Join
The first step in realising your worth at work is joining your union. If you’re a woman in a union, you already face a far narrower gender pay gap than non-members. A union also has you back if ever you need it in advocating for your rights, wherever you are.