The government set a draft law on gender based wage statistics before parliament that aims to cancel out a reform that came into force on 01 January 2015, which had extended the requirement for generating these statistics to companies employing at least 10 staff. Now the government wants to raise this threshold to 35 with at least 10 men and 10 women performing the same function. Those opposing this draft law see it as a backward step for the country in terms of wage equality.
This draft law that modifies the law on gender based wage equality was presented to parliament by Jørn Neergaard Larsen, the Labor Minister and is looking to erase the reform approved by Helle Thorning Schmidt’s government in 2014, which came into effect in 2015 (c.f. article No. 8404). The goal of the 2014 reform was to better understand gender pay differences and thereby facilitate their narrowing. The 2014 reform required all companies employing at least 10 staff including at least three...
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