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Ref. Ares(2021)3535027 - 28/05/2021
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mardi 19 mai 2020 14:35:38
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Dear President,
We are contacting you to raise with you the concern of Vie Féminine 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 reaching consequences.
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.
This crisis will mark a new beginning. We need to remember those who are working on the
frontlines, in services, care, cleaning, we can’t repeat what happened after the 2008 crisis
when companies bounced back but working people and gender equality paid the price.
I look forward to your positive response and we remain available to assist you in your
endeavours to secure an EU where Gender Equality is a reality for all women.
Yours sincerely
Aurore KESCH
Présidente Nationale
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