Equal Pay Act 1972

Pay equity claims

13A: Purpose

You could also call this:

"This law helps fix unfair pay for jobs mostly done by women."

The purpose of this part of the law is to help resolve pay equity claims. You can make a pay equity claim if you think your work is undervalued because it is mostly done by women. This part of the law provides a process to help fix this problem, which is called systemic sex-based undervaluation of work.

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Part 4Pay equity claims

13APurpose

  1. The purpose of this Part is to provide a process that facilitates the resolution of pay equity claims where there is evidence of systemic sex-based undervaluation of work that is predominantly performed by female employees.

Notes
  • Section 13A: replaced, on , by section 6 of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 21).