7 Jul 2023

Self employed midwives to wait more than a year for pay equity

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 7 July 2023

13,000 self-employed midwives will be waiting more than a year to go to court and fight to get pay equity.

Five years of negotiations with government has meant hospital midwives will receive a 15 percent pay increase.

But self-employed, community midwives are still waiting. Jemima Huston reports.