Human Resource Management – Human Resource Law: Employment Law
This is a business unit in Human resource management. Q.Although the Equal Pay Cases of 1969 and 1972 accepted the principle of equal pay for men and women and ended the practice of having different rates for male and female workers in awards, there remains a persistent gender wage gap in Australia. Discuss the ways in which Australian employment law has contributed to continued pay inequity since the Equal Pay Cases, and the prospects for change through the existing legal system.
