The Greens welcome the release of employer-level gender pay gap data by WGEA today, a move that we have long called for, but it\u2019s alarming to see many of the employers with enormous gender pay gaps are the same big corporations that aren\u2019t paying their fair share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also welcome the release of public sector data. The data shows the public sector is significantly outperforming the private sector, demonstrating the importance of government action to address gender inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens leader in the senate and spokesperson on women, Senator Larissa Waters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cClosing the gender pay gap is a task for both employers and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile the overall gap has slightly narrowed over the past year, more than 70 per cent of workplaces still have a gender gap favouring men, and 45 per cent of workplaces have actually gone backwards and now have a worse gender pay gap than the year before. The banking sector remains one of the worst offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMany of the big employers with massive gender pay gaps are also the ones who aren\u2019t paying their fair share of tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVirgin paid $0 tax in 2023-24, and today\u2019s data reveals they have a current gender pay gap of a whopping 44 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cQantas has a gender pay gap of 40 per cent, and despite raking in $21 billion in revenue, paid just $8m in tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd it isn\u2019t just our national airlines that are underpaying women and their fair share of tax. Santos, Chevron, all pay $0 tax and have a current gender pay gap above 20 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe already know these big corporations aren\u2019t paying their fair share of tax, today\u2019s data confirms they aren\u2019t interested in closing the gender pay gap either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrivate companies with massive, and even growing, gender pay gaps are still receiving millions in government contracts. Procurement is a powerful lever to lift private sector performance. The government needs to flex that power and refuse to engage companies that can\u2019t take the gender pay gap seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens welcome the release of employer-level gender pay gap data by WGEA today, a move that we have long called for, but it\u2019s alarming to see many of the employers with enormous gender pay gaps are the same big corporations that aren\u2019t paying their fair share. We also welcome the release of public sector … Continue reading “Can\u2019t pay their fair share of tax, or close the gender pay gap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37759,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37758\/revisions\/37759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}