Play Fair - Pay & Employment Equity
A critical challenge in proactive employer branding is ensuring the reality of your workplace matches your brand. Have you recently assessed your workplace to find out if all employees experience fair and transparent employment practices?
In today’s tight talent market, employers which treat all employees fairly can gain the edge in recruiting, retaining and engaging talented people. The conditions that lead to fairer employment practices for men and women can also help meet a host of other employment challenges.
New Zealand research shows that women’s work is undervalued. Many factors contribute to the pay gap nationally and in individual workplaces, including how employees are treated at work – their rewards, opportunities for leadership and the respect they are shown.
These gender pay and employment equity resources have been designed to assist employers to assess where they stand so they can be confident about their practices and address any inequities that become apparent. You can use the review materials in a number of ways:
- Carry out a full review of pay and employment equity in your organisation;
- Use the relevant questions to assist in reviews of specific issues such as Performance Management;
- Coach Human Resources staff and managers about how gender impacts, often unintentionally, on workplace practices.
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The review resources were originally developed by the Pay and Employment Equity Unit in the Department of Labour for use in the public service and public education and health organisations. They have been adapted for use in the private sector by the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women (NACEW).
They will contribute to New Zealand’s commitment to the ILO’s “Decent Work” project which recognises the social and economic advantages of productive work that delivers a fair income in conditions of freedom, equity and security.