22386 (2025). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

22386 (2025). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: What analysis, if any, has MBIE conducted on the social and economic effects of not settling pay equity claims, particularly for lower-income women?

Hon Brooke van Velden: I sought advice from MBIE when developing my 5 May Cabinet paper which advised the pay equity changes were intended to ensure a pay equity regime which provides a better framework for assessing whether there is sex-based undervaluation. This will benefit people who work in female-dominated occupations who face systemic sex-based undervaluation in their remuneration.