Companies with over 100 employees will gain to do regular pay fairness checks thanks to a fresh law passed in the Swiss parliament. Supporters see this as a major step to combat gender discrimination in the workplace. Nearly three years after the bill was introduced,the House of Representatives agreed on the salary equality law on Monday, with 99 votes in favour, or 88 against,and four abstentions. The Senate approved the law in May. With the decision, Switzerland joins a select group of countries such as Britain that gain started mandating gender pay gap reporting. This is considered an important step towards achieving equal pay for equal work, or ultimately,eliminating gender discrimination. + Read more about progress in achieving gender equality in Switzerland The major sticking point had been the size of companies that should be required to conduct pay fairness analysis. Parliamentarians from the conservative-true parties had been against the law, arguing it placed additional ...
Source: swissinfo.ch