Improving the Quality of Work for Women in the Homecare, Residential and Cleaning Sectors: Overview
NACEW is committed to examining and providing advice on precarious employment issues affecting women. NACEW has identified government contracting as one area where there may be potential for the government as funder to influence improvements in the quality of work for women currently in precarious working situations or low paid work in the homecare, residential and cleaning sectors. Given NACEW’s longstanding interest in pay and employment equity, it sought to consider what might support these outcomes. The project examined how the government’s contracting/funding processes could be used to improve precarious employment with a view to providing recommendations to the Minister of Labour. Two research reports on the New Zealand context and international interventions were the result of this project along with a summary report and recommendations to the Minister of Labour. See contents below.
Summary
Recommendations
New Zealand Context - Executive Summary
- The Report
- Part One: Introduction
- Part Two: Government contracting policy and philosophy
- Part three: The contracting parties and the contracts
- Part four: Pay and employment equity, precarious work issues and contracting - the current situation and future possibilities
- Conclusion
- Appendices
The International Experience
- ILO Convention C94 - Public Contracts 1949
- Minimum wages
- Prevailing wages
- Living wage ordinances (LWO)
- Health benefits
- Contract compliance
- Initiatives in the UK
- Transfer of Undertakings (protection of employment) Regulations (TUPE)
- Positive Duty
- The Equality Act
- Decent Work
- Appendix 1: Minimum Wages
- Bibliography
