Ref. Ares(2021)3535027 - 28/05/2021
FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA
LAVORATORI TRASPORTI
VENETO
FILT-CGIL
Venezia, 14 maggio 2020
To
@ec.europa.eu
President von der Leyen
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 Brussels - Belgium
Dear President,
We are contacting you to raise with you the concern of the FILT CGIL VENETO about the Commission
work programme. We understand from the ETUC that the EU Commission is considering a plan is put
the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the whole Gender Equality Strategy onto ice.
We urge you to reconsider. In our assessment such an approach would be a mistake with far
reachingconsequences.
President, you made gender equality a cornerstone of your Presidency. Binding Pay Transparency was
one of your first 100 days comittments.
Action to secure gender equality cannot be called into question even in times of COVID-19 crisis. Equal
pay is a requirement of the EU Treaty, it is not a fair weather option.
There is a strong interconnection between the EU road to recovery plan and establishing the new
normal after Covid-19, this underscores the need forca Gender Equality Strategy. Throughout the EU,
key workers, in sectors where the work is predominantly undertaken by women are underpaid and
undervalued. This needs to be tackled as part of the recovery, working women should not be put to
the back of the que to be dealt with after the recovery.
The announced Pay Transparency Directive must go ahead and moreover must be reframed to tackle
the root causes of inequality and undervaluing of work. Covid-19 has spotlighted how the unfair
market determined salaries of workers such as cleaners, retail, transport, care and healthcare workers
have diverged from the real value that they provide to society and the economy.
It is long past time that low-wage workers secure a permanent income boost and earn a fair wage
with adequate benefits.
The Pay Transparency Directive can do this by including provisions that assist workers and their
unions to re-evaluate the pay and to secure increases that reflect the real value of the work to the
organisations and society. Crucially it must empower unions to bargain to build a new normal where
work that is done by women is properly valued and paid.
Sede Regionale
30174 Mestre Venezia – Via Peschiera, 7 tel. 041.5497888 tel fax 041.5497851 E-mail: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxx it PEC: categoriecgilveneto@pec it