CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT – wages – equal remuneration order – s.302 Fair Work Act 2009 – Full Bench – United Voice and the Australian Education Union (applicant unions) made an application for an equal remuneration order – children’s services and early childhood education industry – employees working in long day care centres or preschools – comparative exercise required as a jurisdictional prerequisite – preliminary question regarding comparator group – Full Bench held applicant unions ‘elected to place all their forensic eggs in one basket’ by seeking to demonstrate the required equality or comparability in work value between its selected male and female comparator groups by reference only to the 2005 Decision and the subsequent historical pay nexus without calling any evidence – found applicant unions ‘have necessarily fallen short in attempting to satisfy the jurisdictional prerequisite for the making of an equal remuneration order’ – application dismissed. Application by United Voice and the Australian Education Union – Equal remuneration order
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