Posted on 09/11/2016 7:33:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Ten cantons have signed a new charter vowing to combat salary inequality between men and women in Switzerland.
Home affairs minister Alain Berset launched the salary equality charter on Tuesday to fight against discrimination in the workplace and promote the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Representatives of ten cantons and 15 communes have signed the agreement, which concerns public administration bodies and companies engaged by the public sector. [ ]
Despite equality being enshrined in Swiss law, women on average earn between 15 and 20 percent less than their male colleagues.
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.ch ...
Women in the Peoples Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, political, economic, cultural and social, and family life. The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women.So this is what they want in supposedly-individualistic Switzerland? The USSR had similar laws.
Article 47, PRC constitution
And even the Swiss are full of idiots now.
Since there are 26 cantons (states) in Switzerland, it is not even a majority. I guess we will have to see how this plays out.
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