Wage Gap Will Be Considered Labor Violence, Progress Reform in Senate

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The wage gap will be considered labour violence to ensure that substantive equality is applied in Mexico, on Tuesday the Senate of the Republic unanimously approved a reform to the General Law on Access of Women to a Life Free of Violence (LGAMVLV) to qualify as labor violence the perception of a lower income for equal work within a company. The project resumes an initiative promoted by Senator Sasil de León Villard of the Morena bench, to refor…

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Paying a woman a salary lower than a man for the same work in the same workplace may be considered labour violence. The measure, approved unanimously on Tuesday by the Senate of the Republic and amending the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, seeks that women workers can denounce the wage gap as a form of discrimination against women at work. The change incorporates the principle of equal pay for equal work into the law. S…

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The Senate unanimously approved that gender-based violence should be considered to pay a lower wage to women who do the same work as men within the same workplace. At its session on Tuesday, with 109 votes in favour, none against and zero abstentions, the upper house approved the draft decree to amend article 11 of the General Act on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence.The opinion was sent to the Chamber of Deputies for its constitutional …