Australian bank falsely claimed women get paid less for the same work -- will now pay ALL female employees more than men in the exact same job. This is "positive" discrimination apparently!

daqua99 · 2015-07-29T01:46:17+00:00

Well, ANZ, you've lost yourself a customer. I know my measly $10k means very little to you, but I am against any form of discrimination, and I'll be closing my accounts today.

ConfirmedCynic · 2015-07-29T00:15:39+00:00

Next month headline: "ANZ bank profit drops, mass exodus of men from payroll."

Black_caped_man · 2015-07-29T02:45:01+00:00

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Dnile1000BC · 2015-07-29T00:56:44+00:00

First lawsuit starts now.

CrustythePrawn · 2015-07-29T03:18:13+00:00

"The only complication to date is that organisations planning to do so have to get a waiver from the Human Rights Commission to be allowed to discriminate in that way."

Permission to discriminate against men? I'm thinking that's going to be a slam dunk - see http://www.fighting4fair.com/uncategorized/gender-bias-at-the-australian-human-rights-commission/

chocoboat · 2015-07-29T09:38:35+00:00

The savings system was designed for men

Explain this to me please. No, I really want to know. Do they pay an interest rate that's based on penis length, which means women unfortunately get $0?

Daredevilpwn · 2015-07-29T02:45:49+00:00

WTF? Assuming woman are indeed paid less than men for the same work why don't they... I don't know...pay them for the same work? Fighting discrimination with more discrimination does nothing. Of course, this is assuming that women really are paid less for the same work.

Ace678 · 2015-07-28T23:57:51+00:00

Super = 401k.

Apparently the only requirement to get paid more than your colleagues is having a vagina.

drlandspider · 2015-07-29T02:41:33+00:00

Could we maybe get a mirror of the article. Or something. I'd love to read it, but not pay for it.

Jasperkr672 · 2015-07-29T13:30:07+00:00

Women are already doing better in every stage of education, from kindergarten to university.

Moreover, "gender equality" now means "the right to be represented" which has resulted in positive discrimination policies, gender/diversity quotas and even tax benefits for female business owners.

Women also receive a disproportionate amount of money in the form of child support and alimony (otherwise known as child and spousal maintenance), a.k.a. a mass redistribution of wealth from men to women.

They have all this, and they still want more?

Timonidas · 2015-07-29T16:21:45+00:00

Wow if my employer would do this i would be gone in a second.

Ace678 · 2015-07-29T23:28:17+00:00

How is that not illegal?

ThePigmanAgain · 2015-07-29T09:00:04+00:00

Ouch, hitting that pay wall hurts!

perhapsnew · 2015-07-29T13:11:12+00:00

This initiative will quietly fail, because it's a commercial bank, not some government one. When they advertise that they pay more to women, they attract some media attention and some potential employees with vagina, and possibly lawsuits, but they repel men and customers who support equality, not just men or women.

So, what they do is putting themselves into position of disadvantage against competition, and they either run with it and fail or quietly stop this initiative overtime.

*Edit: them -> themselves

Akesgeroth · 2015-07-29T13:18:29+00:00

This is about to happen...

Sinsilenc · 2015-07-29T15:36:40+00:00

good job on losing your entire male workforce!!!

Mens-Rights-London · 2015-07-30T04:44:04+00:00

Outrageous....how can this be legal??

What's especially unfair is how the raise applies to ALL female employees, even the women in high-level positions making a million a year, while the single father or man struggling with high medical bills earning the lowest salary gets nothing.

And the whole part about setting up a financial planning system to "identify the needs and preferences of women..." how can any male customer have faith that ANZ bank is serving him properly and giving him adequate customer care? Why should any man stay at this bank? Why should anyone go to bank that gives them bad financial advice?

Ace678 · 2015-07-29T08:21:06+00:00

Isn't this...like insanely illegal under Australian law?

As far as I know they don't have protected class laws, so it's illegal to pay differently for the same work and jobs for any sex.

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