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Wage restraint aims to lift the lowest-earning public servants, but it won't fix stubborn gender and ethnic pay gaps

  • Written by Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Wage restraint aims to lift the lowest-earning public servants, but it won't fix stubborn gender and ethnic pay gapsPay is a perennial issue: this strike by teachers was in 2019 over a government pay offer. GettyImages

It has been a confusing couple of weeks for public sector employees. They started with the government announcing what looked like a three-year pay freeze for public servants but ended up with a “lift/adjust/hold” approach to public...

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