Finland Equal Pay Tender

The government and labor market organizations have negotiated joint equal pay measures for 20202023. The goal of the equal pay program is to reduce the average pay gap between women and men. This objective is pursued inter alia wage and contract policy the development of pay systems reconciliation of work and family life as well as gender segregation of the labor market by dismantling.The new equal pay program includes a number of practical steps to strengthen pay equality in the coming years.The parties to the program are committed to among other things updating the Gender Impact Assessment Recommendation examining the impact of employment and collective bargaining on the pay gap raising pay awareness guiding on equal pay planning exploring pay-as-you-go pay systems from an equal pay perspective and promoting paternity leave. In addition a joint project will be implemented between the world of work and industry education authorities and education providers to break down the segregation of working life. Minister Thomas Blomqvist welcomes the establishment of the Equal Pay Scheme The Tripartite Equal Pay Scheme is a concrete joint commitment to the promotion of equal pay. The pay gap between women and men is still around 16 and needs to be addressed. The program includes a wide range of ways of promoting equal pay and when this is combined with the governments own actions I am optimistic that the pay gap can be influenced. According to wage center organizations Work for wage equality must be done at the workplace level as well as at the federal and central organization level and in society at large. Important ways to reduce the pay gap include pay transparency uniform criteria for assessing the demanding nature of work and a more even distribution of family leave between parents. It is now important to take swift action. According to the employers center organizations it is good that a new equal pay program has been created. The average pay gap between women and men is about differences in the average gender earnings at the level of society as a whole - not that an employer pays a different pay to a woman and a man working in the same jobs. That is why we are very pleased that the equal pay program now includes an extensive project to break down gender segregation in the labor market. The project aims to address the division of sectors occupations and tasks into womens and mens jobs thereby reducing the average gender pay gap in a sustainable way. In addition to the joint equal pay program the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health also promotes other measures under the government program to strengthen equal pay. The package includes among other things large-scale research projects that develop a method for comparing wages for work of equal value and assess the gender impact of collective agreements. Labor market organizations also have their own measures to promote equal pay. Equal pay programThe Equal Pay Program brings together joint measures by the government and labor market organizations to promote equal pay. The parties are the labor market organizations the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health the Ministry of Employment and the Economy and the Ministry of Education and Culture. Equal pay programs have been implemented since 2006.