24/10/2019 (Agence Europe) – The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) welcomes Ursula von der Leyen’s intention to adopt binding measures on transparency of remuneration during the first 100 days of her mandate. The organisation believes that these measures should include, for companies with more than 10 employees, the “mandatory publication of wages by gender, with fines in the event of failure to declare”. She also supports the prohibition of confidentiality clauses on remuneration in contracts and support for collective bargaining to eliminate the gender wage gap. For European trade unions, these measures are all the more urgent “as only half of the Member States have followed a 2014 European Commission recommendation to tackle the gender pay gap”. (SPj)