Govt pay equity considerations 'encouraging'

The Workplace Relations Minister says Cabinet will now consider ways to make lodging a pay equity claim easier. The Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles was reconvened in January, and has reported its recommendations. Its findings are partly based on the experience of those who lodged some of the early claims. One recommendation is to remove the requirement to show at the very initial stages a pay equity claim has 'merit'. Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says that was creating unintended barriers. Angela McLeod is the spokesperson for the Pay Equity Coalition. She tells Guyon Espiner the move is encouraging.