Pay Equity Update

Date: 03 March 2000

The Labor Council's push for an equal pay principle is gathering steam, after employers moved to accept the union movement's key aspects of the submission.

The Equal Remuneration Principle Application Case, due to finish last Friday, February 25, will continue for at least one more day's hearings from the 22nd of March when the parties will make their final submissions.

The hearing was suspended while the industrial parties negotiated an a agreement on a new Equal Remuneration Principle, after the employers moved from their initial position of rejecting a principle outright.

While the Commission will still have to determine whether or not a new principle is required, as well as the substance of the principle, the agreement by employers is a significant development.

For further information

Contact:	Peter Lewis
Union:	Labor Council of NSW
WWW:	http://workers.labor.net.au/

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