In March 2006 the Full Bench of the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales utilised that state?s equal remuneration principle to address the gender undervaluation of childcare work. In doing so the Full Bench explicitly rejected employer arguments that increased rates of pay for...

The combination of the flow-on effect of the 1972 federal wage fixing principle to State tribunals and State government's passing legislation to implement the International Labour Organization's (ILO) 1951 Convention No. 100 Concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of...