Your pay
Equal pay: Protection against gender discrimination
It’s illegal to pay women and gender minorities less
Equal Pay Act 1972; Employment Relations Act 2000, s 103(1)(c); Human Rights Act 1993, s 22
Employers can’t pay you less or otherwise give you worse work conditions because of your gender.
If your boss does discriminate against you because of your gender, you have the option of either taking a claim against them to the Employment Relations Authority (see the chapter “Resolving employment problems”), or complaining to the Human Rights Commission (see the chapter “Discrimination”).
