Companies in the EU must disclose gender pay gaps
Protesters in London are calling for an end to the gender pay gap.
(dpa) In future, companies with more than 100 employees in the EU will have to publish data on the wage gap between men and women on a regular basis. This provides for an agreement between negotiators from the member states and the European Parliament, as the two institutions announced on Thursday. This should make it easier to identify the differences between the sexes. According to the data, women in the EU earn an average of 13 percent less than men. The so-called “gender pay gap” has narrowed only minimally in recent years.