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In October 2015 the Government introduced the Home and Community Support
(Payment for Travel between Clients) Settlement Bill. The Bill responds to an issue
raised in the Commission’s Caring Counts report and resolves a claim filed in the
Employment Relations Authority that the time a home and community support
worker spends travelling between clients is work for the purposes of the Minimum
Wage Act 1983.
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The Commission recommends that the Committee urge the Government to:
B
set targets to increase the representation of women in corporate governance
and senior management in the public sector and to eliminate the gender pay
gap in the public and private sector over the next reporting period, and provide
an update to the CEDAW Committee when it reviews New Zealand in 2016/17.
take steps – regulatory or otherwise - to require listed companies to establish
and disclose gender polices including measurable objectives and
implementation in their annual reports in line with the United Nations Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights; and
establish a cross agency programme of work to implement and monitor the
implementation of SDG Goal 5 – achieving gender equality and empower all
women and girls.
Inequalities in the education system and labour market
LOIPR
Please provide information on measures taken to address the continuing inequalities faced by Maori and
particularly Pacific peoples in the education system and in the labour market.
(Para 12)
Employment
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Although, the unemployment rate for Māori fell 1.6 percentage points to 10.6% in
the year ended December 2015, it remained almost double the national rate of 5.5%.
Labour force participation also fell, meaning that the number of Māori in the labour
force has not kept up with growth of the working-age population. Labour force
participation for Māori was 65.2%, compared to the national rate of 68.4%.49
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Statistics NZ, (February 2016), Labour Market Statistics: December 2015 quarter. Available at:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-andwork/employment_and_unemployment/LabourMarketStatistics_HOTPDec15qtr/Commentary.aspx
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