There are legitimate concerns with raising the minimum wage: this would also push wage increases across the employment spectrum, in order to respect current differences between different grades of workers
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If you’re a woman working in Europe, you’re earning on average almost 15% less than a man, often for the same work. That means that for every euro a man earns, on average a woman earns 86 cents.
What creates the gender pay gap?
Women still take on most of the childcare which means they often reduce their working hours. A third of women in the EU work part-time compared to 8% of men. This makes it harder for women to progress in their careers. There are also more women in lower-paid sectors like caring and education.
The lockdowns have shown just how entrenched these gender inequalities are, with women taking on most of the extra unpaid childcare. They have also been most at risk of losing their jobs during the pandemic.
European Trade Union Confederation Launches Campaign for European Minimum Wage
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has launched a campaign to convince member states to stand by a European-level regulation of the minimum wage, an MEP of opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said on Tuesday.
Klára Dobrev, a Vice-President of the European Parliament, told an online press conference on Tuesday that draft legislation on a European minimum wage was ready. “We still have a lot to do” before the directive is accepted as a mandatory decree, she added.
Dobrev called it “dramatic” that while food prices grew by 9 percent in Hungary, employees were offered a 3.6 percent wage rise for 2021.