Posted on 04/05/2017 8:39:27 AM PDT by Ennis85
Iceland's parliament is examining a bill that would require companies to prove they offer equal pay to employees. The law, which is set to become a world first, aims to close the wage gap between men and women. Companies face auditing and possible fines if they do not comply. Iceland was ranked first in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Index, followed by Norway, Finland and Sweden. However, according to Iceland's statistics for the same year, the unadjusted gender pay gap remained at 17%. The bill, which was presented on Tuesday, is supported by the centre-right coalition government and the opposition.
Applying to both the public and private sector, it would prohibit any discrimination not just on gender, but also on race, religion, disability, occupational disability, age and sexual orientation grounds. "The bill entails that companies and institutions of a certain size, 25 or more employees, undertake a certification of their equal-pay programmes," Thorsteinn Viglundsson, the minister of social affairs and equality, told news agency AFP.
The bill will now be subject to a series of debates, and if it passes, it will take effect from January 2018. In Iceland's parliament, nearly 50% of lawmakers are women, and a voluntary measure for equal pay across the country was introduced in 2012. However, many still do not think enough is being done. In October, thousands of women left work early and headed out on to the streets of the capital, Reykjavik, to protest against earning less than men. It echoed the 1975 Icelandic women's strike, when women did not go to their paid jobs, or do any housework or child-rearing at home for one day.
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Ivanka to the President: “Daddy, Daddy, look! Iceland gets it, why doesn’t the stupid Patriarchy here get it?”
If Iceland goes through with joining the EU their elected males will be able to take personal days when they have menstrual cramps.
“Wanna bet that if this results in men earning LESS than women, that there will not be a peep about “equality?””
Speaking to your point, I don’t recall ever hearing about the difference in life insurance rates for male and female; same for auto and health insurance.
How about the incredibly unequal treatment given by the family courts?
How about the fact that most every bank, pharmacy, customer service center, government office, doctor’s office, etc., is staffed overwhelming by females?
Charlemagne.
Steely Dan...Oh wait.
I think I need a vacation.
FREEPERS!!
Liberals believe they have the moral duty, and are compelled by their intellectual arrogance, to implement their utopian schemes through big government. They have a government “solution” to every imaginable problem because it is largely them who run government and benefit from its largesse.
In the socialist utopia there are no inequalities and life is completely fair. Rainbows everywhere.
Charlemagne. Steely Dan...Oh wait.
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That would be Kid Charlemagne. You do need a vacation! :)
Hey!!!
He’s better than Pippin!!!
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