A Labour party release criticises the government for abandoning pay equity funding for women in essential care sectors, including hospice and Plunket nurses, calling the decision a betrayal and lack of transparency.
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No, it's right now, Heather, because this is a case in point. We as a government have a pay equity regime in law and we have funding in our budget for it. What they've said is they would restore completely the previous regime. That's the commitment they've made to the unions, to the workers, to New Zealanders. Now we know exactly the cost of that because Treasury have given us the cost of that, and the cost of that is more than 10 billion dollars. So that's known. So either what you're telling me is they're going to backslide, and actually they didn't really mean it when they said they were going to revert to the previous regime. Actually, they're going to do something different, or they're going to have to come up with that 10 billion dollars. It's actually that simple. And if what they're saying is, look, we're going to weasel out of it later, and actually we never meant it when we said we were going to fully restore it. That's fine, but come clean with New Zealanders now.
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withdrawal of government support for claims
Release: Women in funded sector unlikely to get pay equitya binding, costly policy commitment under review
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