Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers.
Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas
As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity. The Covid-19 pandemic may not be over but a feeling of normality has settled and a return to prior times—if ‘seasonally adjusted’—seems to inch […]
Pay transparency yes, but we need more for equal pay
The gender pay gap is stubborn because several factors underpin it. Action is needed on all of them.
The home as office—what’s gender got to do with it?
Rise of telework should dispel the notion that only work in the public sphere is, really, ‘work’.
Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap
Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.
‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions
The climate transition and its social dimension demand more powerful instruments than the European Commission proposes.
A small step towards gender equality in pay
The European Commission’s proposal to reduce the stubborn gender pay gap pulls some punches, apparently anticipating employer resistance.
Time to act on pay transparency
The pandemic provides no excuse for inaction by the European Commission on gender pay transparency. It should be the incentive.