Making things more complicated than they need to be.
Just so they can appear more sophisticated than they really are.

In a nutshell.

Worst gender pay gap companies revealed

Topping the list of more than 5000 Australian employers with 100 or more workers is Hunter Primary Care, which provides NDIS, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, mental health, after hours and primary care services to NSW’s Newcastle and Hunter Valley region.

It had a pay gap of 73.1 per cent in favour of men on both a median base salary measure and a median total remuneration measure.

But its CEO Brenda Ryan said the WGEA’s methodology “skews the data for Hunter Primary Care, which has a unique workforce makeup”.

WGEA annualises the earnings of casual and part-time employees into full-time salaries, and Hunter Primary Health has a large proportion of casual GPs who are men.

“Of our 461 employees, 173 employees are GPs engaged on a casual basis in the GP Access after hours service. On average, they work one, four hour, shift per month,” Ms Ryan said.

“More than half (57 per cent) of our GP Access GPs are male, and they make up 50 per cent of our male workforce.”

Ms Ryan said that as a result, the company’s median annualised male full-time equivalent total remuneration is “a very high figure”, reflecting their work as doctors.

She added that when casual GPs are excluded, the company’s gender pay gap figure drops to two per cent.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/worst-gender-pay-gap-companies-reve...

Gordon wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2024 at 9:11am:



And there you have it ladies and gentlemen - the methodology of the 'WGEA' in creating its own fictional world of delusional fantasy.  How this 'agency' is allowed to operate at all remains a mystery, given its history of blatant lies.

AusGeoff wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2024 at 3:37am:


It's not the award rates that are the issue. They're mandated by law.  It's when you get above award that the issues arise.

One example I heard was a male head chef in a kitchen was paid about $120k a year.  He quit, they gave the same job to a female chef who had the same amount of experience,  but she was paid $30k a year less, for doing exactly the same job the previous male chef had done.

Frank wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2024 at 8:42pm:



They both had the same qualifications and similar levels of experience.  Not that it matters since they had the same job and same responsibilities. The only real difference was she was female .

Gordon wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2024 at 9:11am:








U.S. - According to multiple sources across the country, thousands of women came out today to protest gender discrimination at the nation's logging companies.

"An overwhelming 99.1% of workers doing dangerous logging work are men! This is outrageous!" one woman screamed through a bullhorn as picketers marched in front of Timber Mainline Contractors in northern Michigan. "We demand equal hiring in all professions, whether that's logging work, powerline maintenance, or deadly deep sea fishing!"

"We want to work incredibly dangerous jobs too! We want to work incredibly dangerous jobs too!" they chanted.

One woman in Oregon chained herself to a logging machine and stated she won't come down until Beaver Lumber Mill agrees to a 50% female workforce. "It's 2019, and women still don't have equal representation in the most physically demanding and potentially fatal careers. How can we say this is a free country when women aren't represented in this brutal line of work?"

At publishing time, the nation's lumber mills had agreed to hire the protesters, but they then clarified they wanted other women to represent females in the incredibly dangerous industry, not themselves.