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Gender Pay Gap: Companies must disclose salary differences by gender

2022-12-15T14:38:30.033Z


On average in the EU, women earn 13 percent less than men – and in Germany the situation is even worse. In the future, companies with more than 100 employees must at least make the salary difference transparent.


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PCR test laboratory in Saxony-Anhalt (symbolic picture): Germany is in a bad position compared to the EU

Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch / dpa

In the future, companies with more than 100 employees will have to publish data on the salary difference between men and women on a regular basis.

This provides for an agreement between negotiators from the EU states and the European Parliament.

This should make it easier to identify the differences between the sexes.

According to the data, women in the EU earn an average of 13 percent less than men.

The gender pay gap has narrowed only minimally in recent years.

The agreement goes back to a proposal by the EU Commission.

Parliament and EU states still have to agree.

But that is considered a formality.

Employees and their representatives should also be given the right to receive information broken down by gender about the average wage level of people doing the same work or work of equal value.

If employers do not comply with the obligations of the principle of equal pay, employees have the right to demand compensation, it said.

Germany is in a bad position when it comes to this problem in an EU comparison: women in the Federal Republic earned an average of 18 percent less than men last year.

The income gap remained unchanged compared to the previous year.

Even with comparable work and qualifications, a gap remains.

ani/dpa

Source: spiegel

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