{"id":35027,"date":"2018-01-02T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=35027"},"modified":"2018-01-02T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:16:05","slug":"iceland-becomes-first-country-to-legalise-equal-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/iceland-becomes-first-country-to-legalise-equal-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Becomes First Country To Legalise Equal Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women. In Iceland, it&#8217;s now illegal to pay men more than women. Iceland legalises equal pay between men and women in a world first. A new law making it illegal to pay men more than women has taken effect in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which came into force on Monday, the first day of 2018, makes Iceland the first country in the world to legalise equal pay between men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, companies and government agencies employing at least 25 people will have to obtain government certification of their equal-pay policies.<\/p>\n<p>Those that fail to prove pay parity will face fines. &#8220;The legislation is basically a mechanism that companies and organisations &#8230; evaluate every job that&#8217;s being done, and then they get a certification after they confirm the process if they are paying men and women equally,&#8221; said Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind, a board member of the Icelandic Women&#8217;s Rights Association&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/01\/iceland-country-legalise-equal-pay-180101150054329.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iceland Country Legalise Equal Pay<br \/>\n<\/a>The Global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gender Gap Report<\/a> 2017<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/iceland-becomes-first-country-to-legalise-equal-pay\/equal-pay-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-35029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/equal-pay.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women. In Iceland, it&#8217;s now illegal to pay men more than women. Iceland legalises equal pay between men and women in a world first. A new law making it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/iceland-becomes-first-country-to-legalise-equal-pay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35031,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions\/35031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}