Great Britain: Amicus asks the financial sector to end the salary gap between men and women

The main employees' trade union of the private sector threatens "to name and ostracize" the companies of the financial sector which will not quickly undertake to eliminate wage inequalities. For that, they are firmly invited to sign within six months a charter written by Amicus, in which they promise to attack "the roots of these inequalities". (Réf. 06621)
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After this deadline, they are exposed to a denigration campaign: “We will launch a campagn in the media to publicly expose these companies which are not sincere in their will to bring justice to their female personnel”. Women account for more than half of the labor in financial service firms (55%), but trade union say the difference in wages with their male colleagues is 41% on average, which is the most important of all sectors “These inequalities have also consequences on the family income.

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