Rendi-Wagner: Not in a hundred years, income gap, wait until it closes – Now is the wage transparency act!

Crediting of waiting periods for wage vorrückungen – law claim for dad of the month – more money for Women’s services and Violence prevention

Vienna (OTS/SK) – „We can’t wait a hundred years until the income gap closes. We need to act now!“, the SPÖ explained-Federal party Chairman Pamela Rendi-Wagner on today’s International women’s day. The income report of the court of auditors and the data of the statistics Austria make it clear that, despite the achieved progress, there is still great need for action. Is therefore required for the rapid implementation of the wage transparency act, the legal recognition of the waiting times in the case of wage vorrückungen, a legal right to a daddy month, and an increase in the funding for Women’s services and protection from Violence. ****

For Rendi-Wagner is obvious that the black-blue government, the Close the pay gap or women’s political claims are not a primary concern. „On the contrary, It is even a backward step,“ said Rendi-Wagner and appealed to all women: „is Demanded for women’s rights. Anyone who thinks that women’s political achievements come from self-and – once achieved – of course, is wrong,“ said Rendi-Wagner. „Because everything can quickly be back on the road.“ We recognize very clearly a woman Minister, a petition signed by just under half a Million Austrians, supported, Rendi-Wagner.

Rendi-Wagner remembered in addition to the stop of the Federal grant for the Expansion of childcare facilities: „after months of long and tough negotiations the Same for the Expansion was on the table, as before“. Similarly, the spare is Deleted, the action 20,000 for the older unemployed, the call of many women benefited, or From the current requirement that 50 percent of the costs of the active labour market budgets for women are doping. „And it is nothing to the case against part-time and their many negative effects done,“ criticized Rendi-Wagner. The current countries criticized the report of the EU-Commission Austria because of the family bonus, which is for many Single parents at a disadvantage, fit in the black-and-blue scheme of the women’s political Regression.

„We are proud of the accomplishments that have brought our pioneers over the decades. But we need to take care of it and it must go on, in the sense of a good future for all women,“ said Rendi-Wagner (closing) up/sc

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