The Queensland Dental Assistants' Equal Remuneration Case: Advancing Gender Pay Equity at State Level?

Whitehouse, Gillian; Rooney, Tricia

doi:10.1080/10301763.2007.10669369

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“…There is a developing literature on employment relations in care work, and on the broader societal, regulatory and economic framework that constrains – or may enable – improvements for the generally low-paid and poorly organised members of this workforce, both in Australia (Briggs et al., 2007; Charlesworth, 2012; Cortis and Meagher, 2012; Palmer and Eveline, 2012; Whitehouse and Rooney, 2007) and elsewhere (Bourgeault and Khokher, 2006; England et al., 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The 2000 Queensland Pay Equity Inquiry had resulted in the insertion of an innovative Equal Remuneration Principle (ERP) in the Industrial Relations Act 1999 (Qld). This principle had been successfully applied in cases involving dental assistants and child care workers (Whitehouse and Rooney, 2007) prior to the SACS case. Commissioner Glenys Fisher, who chaired the 2000 Inquiry (QIRC, 2001) and another into the impact of WorkChoices on pay equity (QIRC, 2007), and who had been part of the Full Bench for both the earlier cases, heard the QSU’s SACS application.…”

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Challenging the ‘care penalty’: The Queensland pay equity campaign for community services workers

Bailey

Robertson

Hulme³

2013

Journal of Industrial Relations

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In 2009, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission delivered a historic pay equity decision for the social and community services sector in Queensland. Employers were persuaded not to oppose the need for pay equity, and government -the major funder of the sector -was persuaded to agree to funding increases, as a result of a campaign coordinated by the relevant trade union, the Queensland Services Union, and the peak body representing the sector, the Queensland Council of Social Service. Informed by participant observation, interviews and documentary analysis, this article identifies key elements of the campaign's success using the literature on union campaign strategy, especially studies of coalitions. The study contributes to the developing literature on 'care movements' and to knowledge of strategies for building and maintaining successful campaign coalitions involving unions.

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Challenging the ‘care penalty’: The Queensland pay equity campaign for community services workers

Bailey

Robertson

Hulme³

2013

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…More recent advances were made through the state jurisdictions with New South Wales and Queensland introducing equal remuneration principles in 1998 and 2000 respectively and which were used to result in wage increases for groups of lower paid women, including librarians and dental assistants (Smith and Lyons, 2007;Whitehouse and Rooney, 2007). The cause of advancing pay equity stalled, however, with the introduction of Work Choices.…”

Section: Pay Equitymentioning

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Women, Work and Industrial Relations in 2008

Baird

Williamson

2009

Journal of Industrial Relations

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The year 2008 was a busy one for matters relating to women, work and industrial relations. The Labor Government introduced the Fair Work Bill with a new bargaining stream for low paid workers and new National Employment Standards, which include the right to request flexible working arrangements and extended unpaid parental leave. A number of public inquires on issues pertaining to women and work were also initiated. In this first annual review of women, work and industrial relations we focus on three topics highlighted in 2008 -pay equity, working hours flexibility and paid maternity leave -and assess the implications of the proposed policy changes for women and gender equity.

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“…In 2005, before the introduction of Work Choices, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union initiated and won a case on behalf of dental assistants under the new equal remuneration principle set by the Queensland Commission, building on the findings of the case study on dental assistants undertaken by the Pay Equity Inquiry (Whitehouse and Rooney, 2006). Another claim was mounted for childcare workers, leading Hall (2004, p. 29) to note, rather too hopefully, that Queensland unions will be focusing on pay equity cases until at least 2010.…”

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Gender Mainstreaming: The Answer to the Gender Pay Gap?

Eveline

Todd

2009

Gender Work & Organization

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This article examines the argument that gender mainstreaming offers the way forward for closing the gender pay gap. It juxtaposes research on the process of gender mainstreaming with our account of the processes involved in Australian state government Inquiries into the gender pay gap since the late 1990s. We indicate that the continuous process of analysis and response that gender mainstreaming can offer demands political will, intensive links between research and action, and adequate resourceswhich means that gender mainstreaming is seldom delivered in practice. We use our account of the Australian Inquiries to argue that, provided adequate political and financial resources are in place, the gender pay gap can be narrowed through the institutional mechanisms of an industrial relations system but that the regulatory approach is limited by its vulnerability to changes in industrial relations policy. The article concludes that, whatever strategy is used to narrow the gender pay gap, it must be able to show those who use and observe it that gender itself is a continuous, effortful and political process.

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The Queensland Dental Assistants' Equal Remuneration Case: Advancing Gender Pay Equity at State Level?

Cited by 8 publications

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Challenging the ‘care penalty’: The Queensland pay equity campaign for community services workers

Challenging the ‘care penalty’: The Queensland pay equity campaign for community services workers

Women, Work and Industrial Relations in 2008

Gender Mainstreaming: The Answer to the Gender Pay Gap?

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