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As Travailsuisse announced on Thursday, companies found to be at fault will be published on a blacklist from the middle of the current year. An entry in the blacklist provides information on compliance with the Gender Equality Act and not on whether there is wage discrimination in the company, according to the associated website. Respect8-3.ch.

Companies with more than 100 employees have been required to conduct an equal pay analysis since July 2020. By June 30, 2023, companies must have analyzed their wages for gender discrimination and communicated the results to employees.

Lack of controls and sanctions

According to Travailsuisse, however, there is a lack of controls on analyses and sanctions. Therefore, new measures such as the blacklist are needed. The trade union umbrella organization demands that the current "tolerance threshold" of five percent be abolished. Companies that show unexplained wage differences should have to repeat the wage analysis. Companies that would not take effective measures to reduce wage discrimination would have to be sanctioned.

According to Tobias Bauer, Head of Economic Policy at Travailsuisse, the white list of the Respect8.3.ch platform contains around 160 companies that comply with the Gender Equality Act. They employ around 450,000 workers and have sent the results of their wage analyses to the umbrella organization.

Travailsuisse assumes that this provides information on around 18 percent of all employees in Switzerland. However, this is not a representative random sample, but rather companies that actively wanted to address the problem of wage discrimination and most of which are involved in a social partnership, Bauer explained.

White list

The results of this white list showed that about 95 percent of the companies had an unexplained wage gap to the disadvantage of women. The maximum unexplained wage difference was 15.7 percent. On average, the unexplained wage gap at these "primarily exemplary companies" was 3 percent. It was thus below the 8 to 9 percent calculated for the economy as a whole.

For Travailsuisse, experience with the wage analyses to date has shown that companies take effective measures to achieve equal pay above all when they are involved in social partnership. (SDA)

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