Points out that the gender pay and career development gap remains for women working in the ICT sector; stresses that the principle of equal pay for equal work in the same workplace to ensure just and fair wages is being challenged, even though it constitutes one of the fundamental pillars of social justice in the labour market and should therefore be protected above all else; reiterates that inequalities should not be allowed to take root in the digital economy as regards equal pay and career development; stresses that increased participation of women in the labour market and related investments in social inclusion policies will help ...[+++]to reduce the gender pay gap; highlights the importance of collective bargaining also in the digital market economy in order to safeguard quality and security of jobs in times of digitalisation.

Notes that the gender pay gap remains one of the major issues in relation to the gender gap in the ICT sector, and calls, therefore, on the Member States to finally start actively implementing the Commission Recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency and continued positive action, preferably by means of legislation, and to introduce wage transparency measures and gender-neutral job evaluations; calls on the Commission to address equal pay in its 2016 work programme initiative ‘New Start for working parents’, as the pay gap increases even further when people become parents.

By reducing the clawback rate and applying it to earnings while on claim, the claimant will always increase their income (earnings from work and EI benefits) by accepting additional available work.

Healthy individuals spent more on paid work, unpaid work and active leisure.

So we need to find some means for governments and employers to value that work and to pay what should be paid for that work in order to maintain that workforce.

Beginning with Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome, solid legal grounds were established to ensure that men and women were entitled to receive equal pay for equal work and work of equal value, and to be treated equally in all aspects of work and in certain aspects of social security.