Denmark
A new report has found that the gender pay gap in local government is at 18% and even higher than in the private sector. The FOA has called on municipal employers to address the problem and to start by ensuring that they provide wage statistics broken down by gender. According to FOA a third of local authorities fail to comply with the Equal Pay Act and produce no data on the pay of their male and female workers.
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Thousands of members of FNV Abvakabo and CNV Publieke Zaak trade unions from local government joined a demonstration in the town of Hendrik Ido Andacht on 18 June. Their target was the congress of the VNG municipal employers' organisation. After 18 months without a renewed collective agreement and no progress in negotiations the unions are stepping up their campaign. There was also strike action by municipal workers in Amsterdam, Groningen and Utrecht on 16, 17 and 18 June and the unions say more industrial action may follow unless the employers return to the negotiating table. The unions are
