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Petition update, 28 November 2008

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The pay gap is a rip-off equivalent of men getting paid all year and women working for free from October 30th.

With women working full-time paid 17% less an hour than men on average, women’s work is being discounted scandalously.

Progress on the pay gap has stalled and we need new, stronger action from Government. We need:

Transparency: Mandatory pay checks for all organisations or require organisations to publish pay information in annual reports.

Protection: Each work place has a statutory representative to make sure health and safety standards are met. We need the same to ensure equality too.

Level playing fields: Tackling long hours and increasing flexibility at work, including at senior positions would enable women and men to compete on a level playing field.

Let women stand together: Allow group actions supported by unions so that the burden is not on individual women to speak out.

Funding: The Government should clear up its own backyard and fund equal pay deals for women in the public sector.

Simplify the law: Equal pay cases are harder to take than other discrimination cases, meaning women can’t get justice. The Government must end these unfair anomalies.

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