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Section : Disclosing pay and workplace conditions
Domain : Human Resource Management
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This chunk discusses the importance of transparency in achieving gender pay equity, outlining employees' rights under the Fair Work Act to share or inquire about pay and employment terms. It emphasizes that employers cannot retaliate against employees for exercising these rights, linking to broader themes of legal requirements and best practices for promoting gender pay equity in the workplace.
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Transparency is an important tool in achieving gender pay equity. If employees don't know what other people are getting paid, they can't know if they're being paid equally for equal work. Under the Fair Work Act (FW Act), employees have workplace rights to share or not share information about:
- their pay
- their employment terms and conditions that would be needed to work out their pay, such as their hours of work. They also have the right to ask other employees (with the same or a different employer) about:
- their pay
- their employment terms and conditions that would be needed to work out their pay, such as their hours of work. Employees can't be forced to give this information to another employee if they don't want to. fairwork.gov.au | Fair Work Infoline: 13 13 94 | ABN: 43 884 188 232 Employers can't take adverse action against an existing or future employee either:
- because of these rights, or
- to prevent an existing or future employee from exercising these rights. For more information about these rights, including when these rights started applying and who they apply to, see Pay secrecy at fairwork.gov.au/pay-secrecy
- What is the main purpose of transparency in relation to gender pay equity?
- According to the Fair Work Act, what rights do employees have regarding sharing information about their pay?
- Can employees be forced to share their pay information with others? Why or why not?
- What actions are employers prohibited from taking against employees concerning their rights to share pay information?
- How can employees find more information about their rights related to pay secrecy?
- What specific employment terms and conditions can employees inquire about to determine pay equity?
- Why is it important for employees to know what others are being paid?
- What implications does the Fair Work Act have for workplace culture regarding pay transparency?
- In what ways might the lack of pay transparency affect gender pay equity?