
Women’s work gets the middle finger
Changes to the Pay Equity Act saved the Government an estimated $12.8 billion, but the producers of a new podcast, Shortchanged, argue that our economic system has long discriminated against women in the workforce.
By Angela Meyer & Tania Domett
On May 6, 2025, the Government wiped 33 pay equity claims overnight. No warning, no consultation, no press release to the 180,000 workers affected. One day the claims existed. The next they didn’t. Ministers called the existing framework “loose and unworkable” and moved on.
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