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WALES TUC delegates vowed yesterday to ensure budget cuts don’t widen the gender pay gap even further.
“Four decades on from the Equal Pay Act, it’s clear that we’ve got to take a tougher line,” said teachers’ union Nasuwt delegate Jane Setchfield.
Britain’s gender pay gap in among the widest in Europe, with women earning on average 15 per cent less than men.
She said that 40 per cent of jobs offered to women are part-time, with “little progress on restructuring senior jobs to allow job shares and flexible working hours.”
Kelly Andrews of general union GMB noted that 80 per cent of the part-time jobs in Wales were done by women.
And Cardiff TUC delegate Bryony Lanham said that unequal pay was a major problem in banking and the Civil Service.
“Many women are priced out of the workplace by high childcare costs,” she said.
Conference unanimously supported a motion on equal pay urging the Wales TUC general council to campaign to ensure that Westminster-driven budget cuts do not exacerbate the pay gap in Wales.
