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Budget 2025: Pay equity changes set to save Government nearly $13 billion

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 22 May 2025, 2:23pm
Photo / Mark Mitchell
Photo / Mark Mitchell

Budget 2025: Pay equity changes set to save Government nearly $13 billion

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 22 May 2025, 2:23pm

A sizeable proportion of today's new initiatives are funded through savings made by revamping the pay equity programme. 

In total, almost $13 billion dollars has been saved over four years.

Economist Brad Olsen says it's a substantial part of the saving to fund other initiatives.

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