“Putting more bureaucracy on businesses won’t close the gender pay gap, the real pay gap we should be worried about is the gap with Australia,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“The median hourly wage for New Zealand women is $26.37, while across the ditch you get almost $11 more an hour, $37.02 (NZD).
“The overall gap between New Zealand and Australia: $27.76 compared with $38.52.
“Meanwhile, inflation is lower in Australia, there are even reports Kiwis having their groceries shipped to New Zealand from across the Tasman because it’s cheaper.
“It’s in our DNA to not let Australia win, these figures show they are wiping the floor with us. This is the gap we should be fighting hard to close.
“We should be focussed on boosting productivity, becoming more competitive and creating a healthy economy. Instead, the Government is piling bureaucracy onto businesses who are already tied up in red tape.
“It’s impossible to prove that someone with the same experience and qualifications is worth the same. Some people just work harder and businesses know who these people.
“If the Government wants to boost wages it stop being so inwardly focused and stop adding red tape, We should be focused on being more competitive. It’s time to take the Aussies on.”
Unfortunately we will not see this pay gap parity close under the Labour led Coalition Govt. They have no idea of business acumen or common sense and only know how to spend and give away tax payers money willy nilly to brainless schemes and to pacify Maori elitists
It’s not that they have no “business acumen” 1936horse – they may have, but they have no intention of using it. They want New Zealand business and productivity to go down. Economic destruction. It is the WEF/NWO plan for us. Pay gap is of no consequence – we are all to be put on a universal wage. Farmers will be forced off the land which will be run then by a select few corporates. Our enslavement in the cities will be complete. No cars, no travel, no nothing. You will own nothing and you will be happy. I wonder why New Zealanders cannot see the bleeding obvious.
Australia is far more superior in all systems especially the Health industry Construction and Retail, it’s what mixed Races brings to the table that counts.