Equal Pay (II)

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA  

SPEECH  

BY  

Mr. E. JAMES HARRISON, M.P.  

ON  

EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.  

[From the “ Parliamentary Debates” 1st May, 1962.]  

Mr. E. JAMES HARRISON (Blaxland)  

[3.17].—This debate is launched to-day  

with the object of eliminating at the earliest  

possible moment inequality in the payment  

for work of equal value irrespective of  

whether such work is performed by male or  

female workers. The Government stands  

condemned for its failure to take the neces-  

sary action to honour its obligations to the  

International Labour Organization. De-  

cisions, to which the Government was  

party, were taken by the organization in  

1951.  

It is true that the Government put Aus-  

tralia’s attitude in near negative form when  

it abstained from voting on Convention No.  

100, but it did vote for Recommendation  

No. 90. It becomes important to be  

specific about what the conventio(n and  

recommendation provide. We should keep  

in mind that when these matters were before  

the I.L.O., we were represented not on  

government level but on national level.  

The first part of Article of Convention  

No. 100, on which the Government failed  

to vote, provides—  

Each Member shall, by means appropriate to  

the methods in operation for determining rates of  

remuneration, promote and, in so far as is con-  

sistent with such methods, ensure the application  

to all workers of the principle of equal remunera-  

tion for men and women workers for work of  

equal value.  

The Government, representing Australia,  

failed to vote either for or against that reso-  

lution. The first paragraph of Recom-  

mendation No. 90 is in these terms—  

Appropriate action should be taken, after con-  

sultation with the workers’ organizations concerned  

or, where such organizations do not exist, with  

the workers concerned—  

a. to ensure the application of the principle  

of equal remuneration for men and  

women workers for work of equal value  

to all employees of central Government  

departments or agencies; and  

b. to encourage the application of the prin-  

ciple to employees of State, provincial or  

local government departments or agencies,  

where these have jurisdiction over rates  

of remuneration.  

It is hard to imagine that government rep-  

resenting country like Australia would  

vote for this resolution but in eleven years  

do nothing to implement it in respect of its  

own employees. This morning received  

from the Minister for Labour and National  

Service (Mr. McMahon) statement in rela-  

tion to conventions and recommendations  

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