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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12786
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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES / Gender equality

Samira Rafaela and Kira Peter-Hansen would like to extend measures on pay transparency to companies with 10 or more employees

MEPs Samira Rafaela (Renew Europe, Netherlands) and Kira Peter-Hansen (Greens/EFA, Denmark) unveiled on Tuesday 7 September their draft report on the future EU Directive on pay transparency (see EUROPE B12671A1).

Their text, which will be debated in a parliamentary committee at the end of the month, tackles one of the key measures of the Commission’s proposal: the obligation for companies to publish information on pay differentials between their workers.

MEPs would like to see this...

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