Election 2017 - Party Policies - Economy - Women's Economic Development
27th May 17, 9:51am
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Women's Economic Development
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- Introduce pay transparency, by requiring employers to collect data on what they pay men and women.
- Amend the equal pay laws, to include agreed principles and an onus on employers to prove they are paying women fairly.
- Double the funding for the Ministry for Women; and ensure the Minister for Women sits in Cabinet, not outside it, and ensure gender balance amongst Green Party ministers.
- Develop employment legislation to increase the ability of workers to care for themselves and their dependants, for example child-friendly workplace provisions; breastfeeding breaks and areas; flexible working hours; increased sick and domestic leave provisions, and create protections from attack and negative employment consequences for victims of domestic violence in the workplace.
- Work towards a social security system that treats people as individuals rather than couples, reduces stigma, respects and enables caring for children and other dependants and voluntary community work, and ensures the ability to participate in society for all.
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- Encourage and support more women to become self-employed.
- Reinstate the Pay and Employment Equity Unit in the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and implement a new plan that works towards pay equity and implements the recommendations of the Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles.
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- Income sharing for couples with dependent children. Income sharing means that, for tax purposes, the income of both parents is combined.
- Income sharing is therefore a way we can attach equal value to the role each parent plays in building a family where there is a significant income disparity between partners.
- Read more here.
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