There are a wide range of issues that currently affect Australian young women. These include (but are not limited to): The casualisation of the workforce, high rates of under-employment, increase in the gig economy and increasing unpaid internships make it difficult for young people to find steady, secure employment with access to paid leave and superannuation.1 The youth unemployment rate is currently 12.6% overall and 12.3% for young women aged 15-24, compared to an unemployment rate of 5.1% for the total population.
Historically low wage growth indicates that the enterprise bargaining system is not working well for employees. Last year the sense that workers were losing out while companies profited reached a peak when company profits grew by 22%
Comprising 33 photos and supported by the National Foundation for Australian Women, Ruth Maddison's Women at work in the 21st century collection […]
This submission briefly addresses the gender segregation issues identified in the first three terms of reference. The issues identified in those sections are expanded upon and addressed in detail under the last two terms of reference, which discuss approaches to gender segregation and suggested remedies.
Commentson Selected Recommendations of the 2017 report of the Senate Finance And Public Administration Committee concerning Gender Segregation In the Workplace. We appreciate Labor’s invitation to put our views on the matters identified in the consultation paper. Our commentary below is numbered to mirror the sections of the consultation paper to which it responds.
NFAW notes that a number of employer associations are attempting to rely in their submissions on views expressed in the recently released Productivity Commission report on the Workplace RelationsFramework.
The National Foundation of Australian Women, NFAW, is a non-politically aligned feminist organisation committed to examining the potentially differential impact of policies and their outcomes for men and women and whether the consequences of policies, intended or unintended adversely affect women. ,The aged care workforce is an area of major policy interest to NFAW on four grounds.
While the well-being of employees is a reasonable point of departure, the Commission takes as its unit of analysis the male employee, arguing that current labour standards should not be modified to accommodate the needs of feminised ‘groups’ of workers because this may lead employers to discriminate against women.
The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), a non-politically aligned feminist organisation, in conjunction with experts from a range of women’s organisations, has prepared this submission to the Productivity Commission’s (the Commission) inquiry into the workplace relations framework.
