French firms that pay women less than men will have to cough up, says Emmanuel Macron
Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron marked International Women’s Day on Thursday with a pledge to "name and shame" companies that paid women less than men for the same work. On a visit to a Paris-based property management firm hailed as a model of gender equality, he announced plans to "drastically" increase inspections of companies to ensure they complied with a law requiring equal pay for equal work. "We will put in place a ‘name and shame’ system to make public [the names of] companies that least respect the law," said Macron, who has made tackling sexism a key priority. "No one wants to be bottom of the class on this issue," he said. In 2017, the World Economic Forum ranked France 11th out of 144 countries for gender equality but a dismal 129th for wage equality for similar work. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced plans to get tough on companies that pay women less. Under a package of workplace reforms to be finalised in April, wage-screening software w...
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