New Zealand's pay equity claim system has been cancelled -- and all thirty-three claims will be started again from scratch.
The goal of pay equity legislation was to give deals to work forces that have been historically undervalued because the workforce is majority women -- and this involved making comparisons between different jobs, like a librarian and a fisheries officer.
Fiona McMillan is a partner at law firm Lane Neave - and until last week, she was working on pay equity claims like this.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
