Swiss cantons sign up to fight gender pay gap

TheLocal.ch ^ | 07 Sep 2016 12:07 GMT+02:00

[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. …

[Olog-hai]

Women in the People’s 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.

— Article 47, PRC constitution

So this is what they want in supposedly-individualistic Switzerland? The USSR had similar laws.

[VanDeKoik]

And even the Swiss are full of idiots now.

[Robert DeLong]

So are the 15 communes (known to us as municipalities, 2,596 in numbers) within the 10 cantons (known to us as states)?

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.