Some clerical health staff will earn $20,000 more a year to recitify years of being underpaid.
District health boards have reached a gender pay settlement with 10,000 administration staff, 90 percent of whom are women.
This is the first pay equity settlement under the new Equal Pay Act.
Generic money. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
PSA union delegates and affected workers Nancy McShane and Nia Bartley spoke to Susie Ferguson.