The Human Rights Commission is excited to be hosting a webinar ‘End Pay Secrecy’, focusing on the importance of pay transparency and pay equity.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, there remains discrimination around pay and career progression that disproportionately affects Māori, Pacific, disabled, migrant, refugee, minority ethnic and trans-women. Yet, all Kiwis regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, race, colour, or national origin deserve equal pay for work of equal value.

Pay secrecy has, in particular, allowed women to be underpaid for 45 years after the Equal Pay Act was made law in 1972. It’s time for Aotearoa New Zealand to end the secrecy. It reinforces racial biases and often hides structural inequalities. If wages and salaries are made transparent, it simply becomes harder to hide.

Our panellists will be speaking about why it is important for the Government to include pay transparency in the Equal Pay Act so that gender and ethnic pay inequities are addressed and how ending secrecy around pay and promotion is an opportunity to do right by everyone in all their diversity, in every business, every industry, at every level.

We invite you to attend the webinar to hear from our amazing panelists:

• Dennis Maga – General Secretary, First Union
• Rob Campbell – Professional Director; Chancellor, Auckland University of Technology
• Kramer Hoeflich – Service Lead, Vaka Tautua

The Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner, Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo, will host the webinar.

When: Thursday 27th January 2022, 12pm to 1.00pm

Topic: End Pay Secrecy

The panel will be speaking about male perspectives on pay transparency and pay equity and how we can better ensure equal pay for work of equal value and create a fairer society where everyone can achieve their potential and be fairly rewarded for the work they do.

There will be an opportunity for Q & A at the end of the panel.

There is a petition to call for pay transparency, launched by the EEO Commissioner, which you can sign here: https://www.demandpaytransparency.org.nz/end-pay-secrecy

And here too:

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/document/PET_118436/petition-of-new-zealand-human-rights-commission-te-kāhui

If you have any questions, please email us at media@hrc.co.nz

Ngā mihi nui,

Equal Employment Opportunities Team

NZ Human Rights Commission