Since the beginning of this year, female workers in Germany have the right to know how much do their male coworkers earn if they have the same job as they do, according to a law passed on 2017. According to governmental statistics, women in Germany earn 21% less than men.
In order to reduce this gender pay gap, companies with more than 200 employees must give information about the monthly wage of at least 6 workers of the opposite sex that make the same kind of work. In case the company doesn’t provide that information to the worker, they can make a complaint. Furthermore, the law recommends companies with more than 500 workers checking their salary structure so they can make wage equal for males and females.
Although German legislation prohibits discrimination, according to a study from the Hamburg Institute of International Economics female workers accumulate 49,8% less income than male workers for their whole professional career. This has been this way for almost half a century.
In fact, 93% of the members of the executive board of the 160 companies that are listed on the stock market are males, while most of the temporary half-time and underpaid jobs are occupied by women. 47,8% of the women work on half-time jobs, whereas only 10,8% of men do.
Apart from this statistics and labour interruptions because of maternity, gender pay gap on the same jobs and same hours worked decreases to 6%.
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