18 May 2022

Equity settlement sees clerical health staff pay rise

From Morning Report, 7:53 am on 18 May 2022

Some clerical health staff will earn $20,000 more a year to recitify years of being underpaid.

District health boards have reached a gender pay settlement with 10,000 administration staff, 90 percent of whom are women.

This is the first pay equity settlement under the new Equal Pay Act.

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PSA union delegates and affected workers Nancy McShane and Nia Bartley spoke to Susie Ferguson.