 The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New ZealandKatherine Ravenswood Chapter 15 in Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, 2023, pp 194-205 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Persistent gender inequity is entrenched in the New Zealand public sector. This is more so for outsourced occupations such as health care assistants in aged care. Following a neoliberal approach to the State sector, care and support work has increasingly been outsourced to private providers, distancing the State from its role as employer of the feminised workforce. This has resulted in poor work conditions for these workers. Workers and their unions challenged the inequity for aged care workers, resulting in new legislation that prescribed higher wages and training opportunities. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research into the impact of the Care and Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlement Act 2017, this chapter illustrates some of the ‘unintended’ negative consequences of the Act and argues that they are the intended result of a neoliberal approach to the role of the State in public sector employment. Keywords: Business and Management; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20315_15 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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