EU to demand companies report pay gap between men and women

Bruno Waterfield, in Brussels Published: 6:32PM GMT 05 March 2010

Viviane Reding, the newly allocated European rights commissioner, has published new total display an normal EU compensate opening in in between men and women of eighteen per cent, a figure that rises to 21.4 per cent in Britain.

Women in the EU consequence 82 cents (74p) for each €1 (90p) that men move in, according to the study.

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"I am really endangered that the gender compensate opening has hardly depressed over the last fifteen years and in a little cases it is essentially increasing," she said.

"We will significantly revoke the gender compensate opening in the EU by the finish of this commission"s mandate."

Mrs Reding will move brazen "both legislative and non-legislative" proposals after the summer "on stating the gender opening and ensuring clarity on compensate at association or particular levels".

"She will proceed with a intentional intrigue and afterwards we will see," pronounced an EU official.

The Commission is additionally endangered to abet employers to make use of "gender neutral pursuit classifications" that do not distinguish opposite women or men.

The EU compensate opening is formed on the disproportion in sum hourly gain in in between men and women, and ranges from only 4.9 per cent in Italy to thirty per cent in Estonia.