6 Amendments of Marju LAURISTIN related to 2014/2160(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the main challenge for all EU countries is the correct application and enforcement of the rules on equal pay, as established by Directive 2006/54/EC,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A d (new)
Recital -A d (new)
- Ad. whereas lack of transparency in employee wage structure creates an environment for gender bias and discriminatory pay structures to remain unrevealed by employees and/or their representatives and extremely difficult to prove thus hampering the effective implementation of the equal pay for equal work principle,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A e (new)
Recital -A e (new)
-Ae. whereas in most Member States national laws do not define in any way the concepts of 'work of equal value' and 'same work', therefore leaving it to interpretation of national courts on a case-by-case basis, thus contributing greatly to the lack of legal certainty for potential victims of pay discrimination, despite the references given by the Court of Justice of the EU in order to ensure legal certainty,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to actively implement the Commission Recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency1 , by introducing recommended and tailor-made wage transparency measures and gender- neutral job evaluation and classification systems;, in particular company reporting and employee's entitlement to request pay information __________________ 1 C(2014)1405.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance to combat indirect discrimination within pension schemes, not only in occupational schemes but also within practices of statuary pension schemes;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to widespread and raise public awareness related to equal pay, the gender pay and pension gap, on direct and indirect discrimination of women at work on European, national, regional and local levels; calls on the Commission to establish a European year for combating gender pay gap;