Without binding measures on equal pay, women will still have to wait an average of 84 years for equal pay, if current trends continue, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said on Monday 5 October.
The pay gap between men and women in the EU has in fact only decreased by 1% over the last eight years, according to Eurostat.
In some countries, however, the gap is narrowing even more slowly: in France, where it has fallen by only 0.1% since 2010, the ETUC notes that it will take more...