Spain
In February the government consulted with employers and trade unions over a proposed new law to tackle gender equality. The law will require employers with more than 250 workers to draw up a gender equality plan. The legislation also increases paternity leave from two to 10 days and will allow for greater flexibility in working time to achieve a better work-life balance.
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The government has drafted new legislation to make it compulsory for employers to report on gender pay gaps. This would cover jobs where women and men are performing the same work. Employers with more than 30 employees will have to report to their personnel on the company equality plan. The report will have to include information on classification, salaries and salary differences in respect of female and male jobs. Where there are differences, the employer is obliged to clarify to the employees the reasons for this. Although legislation on this already exists, the new law will make the rules
The FSP-UGT public services federation has called for a new agreement in the general public administration that would require action to uncover the main reasons for continuing inequality between men and women. The union says it wants to work with the equality units that should have been set up in each Ministry according to recent legislation, although so far only two are up and running. The federation argues that if it is possible to identify the main factors that contribute to inequality then it will be possible to draw up a plan of action to deal with them. [Read more at > FSP-UGT (ES)->http
