Denmark: industry is the first sector to get arbitration committee for equal pay disputes

For the 2010 collective agreements, the industry’ social partners agreed to make the LO and DA Confederations responsible for creating the Equal Pay Committee (ligelønsnævn, see our dispatch No.  100171), so it could be operational as early as October 2010.  but since the two couldn’t reach an agreement – DA was in favor of compensating unequal pay victims but rejected LO’s claims on the need to sanction employers breaking the rules – each sector now has to create its own Committee.  It is done in the industry, where the Committee has been operating since the beginning of the month, as a result of the agreement signed in February between Co-Industri and DI.
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as October 2010. but since the two couldn’t reach an agreement – DA was in favor of compensating unequal pay victims but rejected LO’s claims on the need to sanction employers breaking the rules – each sector now has to create its own Committee. It is done in the industry, where the Committee has been operating since the beginning of the month, as a result of the agreement signed in February between Co-Industri and DI.

The new Committee. The procedure and the model are similar to those of the

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