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Equal Pay and The Gender Pay

   

Added on  2020-12-26

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Case studyblog:Discrimination atWork: Equal Pay andThe Gender Pay Gap

Discrimination at Work: Equal Pay and The Gender Pay GapThis article contains information about workplace discrimination in terms of gender paygap which is prevailing within Australian community i.e. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderpeople. Under this article a detail description about gender pay gap issue which is relativelyhigher in Australia is performed specially in context of women which belongs to Aboriginal andTorres Strait Island. This a community of Indigenous people who lives in a part of Queensland,Australia and are generally referred separately. There are basically two Torres Strait Islandercommunities which are situated on coast of Bamaga and Seisia. The main reason behindfocusing on this group is to get more deep knowledge about the ongoing discrimination and thesegroups are also from backward and undeveloped class. These islands are basicallyunderdeveloped and because of which financial crises in these areas are little be higher. Due toincrease in financial pressure, along with the people, the old women of this community alsostarted to work. For supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, QUT (QueenslandUniversity of Technology's) has take initiative to consider at least 1.7 per cent people getrecruited from this community out of total university workforce. But still there is a hugediscrimination can be seen among the male and female Indigenous employees that are workingwithin the same university as female employees doesn't get equal opportunity as compare to malestaff. It has been identified that majority of employees at higher position i.e. over seniormanagement and executive level are males, female employees are only up-to middlemanagement level (Conley, 2014).The indigenous community has always being discriminated on gender gap specially at jobrelated opportunity as median income of Indigenous men is relatively higher as compare towomen. In Major cities it is around $404 for man and $329 for women, within inner regionalarea it is $317 for man and $288 is for women and in outer regional area male staff get $299 andfemales get $289. It clearly shows that pay scale for male employees than female employeeswhich depicts discrimination. Thus, need to be eliminated by treating them equally. Thisenvironment of racism and discrimination has found over several areas of Australia, there approxthree-quarters of Indigenous Australians working as a general or academical staff at nation'suniversities who have experiences discrimination at workplace, specially from colleagues. Thediscrimination was made firstly from the management on the basis of their pay gap and due tothis, their colleagues also started the same what the management was doing. From a latest report

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