In the filing, Kirby McInerney says it rejected 75% of the lawyers it considered hiring on a temporary basis and sought out graduates of prestigious schools with specialized training in the collateralized debt obligations at the core of the complaint.
Bosses covered their legal obligations by introducing equal opportunities policies and training sessions, requiring staff to discuss and consider the meaning of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in the work-place.
The Task Force has helped women recover millions in lost wages, built collaborative training programs that educate employees about their rights and inform employers of their obligations, and facilitated an unprecedented level of inter-agency coordination to improve enforcement of equal pay laws.
"It seems to me inconsistent that we wouldn't want to help this federal government now start to move forward with the very real difficult challenges of security sector reform, training the armed forces, building their capacity, building their understanding of human rights obligations, " he says.
It is the best opportunity they have for getting the training to develop skills they need to earn a good income later in life when they will have more financial obligations.