Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

supports the principle of equal pay for equal work;

(2)

notes that the:

(a)

Social and Community Services (SACS) sector equal remuneration case is currently before Fair Work Australia;

(b)

Heads of Agreement made between the Government and the Australian Services Union (ASU), signed by the Prime Minister when she was Minster for Workplace Relations, includes an acknowledgment of the potential budgetary impacts of the case and the agreement of the ASU to a gradual phase-in of any wage increase that results; and

(c)

anger, disappointment and concern in the SACS sector that the Government’s submission to Fair Work Australia shows the Government backtracking on its commitment to pay equity; and

(3)

calls on the Government to re-commit to the principle of pay equity and acknowledge that given the SACS sector provides many essential services on behalf of the Government, the Government has the primary responsibility to fund any pay increases necessary to achieve pay equity in the sector.

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