Iceland Just Made It Illegal To Pay Men More Than Women

The Mirror (UK) ^ | 1-4-2017

[Mr. K]

I’ve have NEVER interviewed for a job, or seen a posting that said The pay is X for women, and X+15% for men.

The average pay is irrelevant to any individual pay. A person who is paid more for a job is worth more than someone else.

[blam]

"Could have unintended consequences, Cutting Male pay to match Female's. "

Yup.

Maybe every employee becomes a private contractor....or, some such.

I remember back in the 70's Nixon froze wages. I couldn't get a raise so I told my employer that I had gotten another job with a higher salary. They said, well....what's your title, I said Technician....they said, okay, now you are a senior technician with this salary.(salary was what I wanted all along)

Everybody was getting promoted....a loophole in the freeze dictate.

[familyop]

Making refugees welcome: Citizens of Germany, Iceland show the way
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/europe/europe-migrants-welcome/index.html

More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to house Syrian refugees to help European crisis
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/more-than-11000-icelanders-offer-to-house-syrian-refugees-to-help-european-crisis-10480505.html

[familyop]

Back in 2016, some African websites were saying that there was a shortage of men in Iceland and that the government of Iceland would pay $5,000 a month to immigrants who marry Icelandic women. Women there were deluged with messages from Africa.

[sphinx]

Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind, of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association, told Al Jazeera: "The legislation is basically a mechanism that companies and organisations ... evaluate every job that's being done, and then they get a certification after they confirm the process if they are paying men and women equally."

Here's the root issue. Companies are being forced to "evaluate" every job. The issue is the criteria for this evaluation. If government sets the rules, jobs will be rated for things that bureaucrats value highly, such as paper credentials required, number of people supervised, and nominal (not actual) duties. And things will be discounted or ignored entirely if they are outside the bureaucratic mindset, or not easily reducible to a bureaucratic audit -- things like outdoor work, hazardous work, irregular hours, physically strenuous tasks, willingness to travel, weekend work, stress, etc. Anything that tends to add a premium to traditional "men's work" will be strictly verboten. Since the goal is to establish gender equivalency in pay, the scores will be rigged.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[Socon-Econ]

Conquest by a foreign country that believes in private property is the only hope for those degenerates.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to house Syrian refugees to help European crisis

Well... It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Crucial]

I didn’t say don’t pay the women as men. Yet it’s OK if the men don’t make as much as the women. So a woman could be paid more than a man and that doesn’t violate the law.

[Chickensoup]

Per hour?

for the same work?

[Figment]

Easy fix. Hire women only or men only. No pay differential