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- "Once this obligation is established it will be necessary to warn the companies that it will be very expensive not to give the correct information because it is very easy to verify and the City Council has the ability to punish those who wish to bypass the specifications," explained the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín
Cartagena, Thursday, January 31st.
Citizens has succeeded in getting the Government team to include as a criterion to evaluate the award and execution of municipal contracts, the lack of a wage gap according to the formula set by Eurostat.
The proposal, at the request of the orange training, must count before its implementation with the approval of municipal technical reports to assess its compatibility with the new Contracts Law, effective as of March 2018. Cartagena ", has assured Padín.
The motion has been approved with the vote of Citizens, PSOE and CTSSP-Podemos, and the abstention of PP and MC.
"We want all those companies that aspire to get a municipal contract to certify beforehand that there is no wage gap between their workers," said the orange spokesman who adds that "the municipalities have many tools to promote labor equality and promote justice and one of them is to force companies that relate to the public sector to lead by example ".
"I wish it were not necessary to establish these measures," says Padín, "but we still do not live in a world where all national companies respect the Spanish Constitution, the fundamental norm of the State, which establishes equal rights for all citizens, regardless of sex. be ".
"From Ciudadanos we think that this gap can only be corrected with strong actions by all agents, including companies and public administrations," Padin said, explaining that "we hope that this measure will be extended to the rest of the municipalities in the Region. of Murcia and between all of us contribute to put an end to this unjustifiable and humiliating salary difference ".
The orange training highlights the importance of quantifying the gap in an objective manner, so that for the bidder the application of the weighting criteria is made transparent because of these social considerations, for which purpose it will propose using the formula established by Eurostat for the calculation of the salary gap at European level.
The spokesman of Cs warns that "once established this obligation will be necessary to warn companies that it will be very expensive not to give the correct information because it is very easy to check and the City has the ability to punish those who intend to skip the specifications "
Citizens recalled that according to the latest data from FEDEA, women earn 12.7% less per hour than men doing the same job as them.
According to representatives of the equality secretariats, the unions UGT and CC OO reported that the gender wage gap in the region is 26 percent, exceeding 23 percent of the national average and highlighting, above all, in sectors such as trade. , the hospitality industry and the agricultural sector.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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