Vice Lehendakari and Minister of Economy, Labor and Employment Mikel Torres committed to updating a new operational plan on the wage gap, “negotiated and agreed” at the social dialogue table.
The Deputy Lehendakari and Minister of Economy, Labor and Employment of the Basque Government, Michael Torreshas committed to updating a new operational plan on the pay gap, “negotiated and agreed” at the social dialogue table, so that Euskadi is among the five European countries with the lowest inequality rate in 2030.
According to INE data for 2022, the average annual income between men and women is unevenly distributed: men in the Basque Country have an income of 30,095 euros and women 29,314 euros. That’s why there is one 17.8% pay gap.
At the opening of the Third International Congress on the Wage Gap, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, he urged women to be the driving force behind the economic revolution “to win in terms of social justice and competitiveness.”
‘We are in the middle of a revolutionary, unstoppable and transformative process of global dimensions we want women stop sitting in the corner of protection and become the engine of the economic revolution that we are experiencing,” Torres said.
In this sense, it has committed to updating a new operational plan on the pay gap, to be “designed, negotiated and, if possible, agreed” at the social dialogue table.
The deputy lehendakari has called for the denial Regarding the wage gap: “Deniers are appearing on the political and social horizon who also deny the existence of the wage gap. That the wage gap exists is a harsh reality.”
Source: EITB
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