International Women’s Day: France to name, shame employers that pay women less

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron has said his government would stop at nothing to ensure women are paid as well as their male counterparts by employers.

Macron said his government would not hesitate to “name and shame” employers who are guilty of unfair treatment of workers.

“We are going to put in place a system … that will allow us to name the businesses where the law is least respected and where checks show the greatest salary gaps,” Macron said in celebration of the International Women’s Day on Thursday.

The French government says that women are on average paid 9 per cent less than men of the same age in the same position.

Macron said, calling out businesses with the biggest pay gaps “will make a difference, because nobody wants to be wearing the dunce’s cap.”

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A computer software is expected to be made available to companies, which will enable them to track the gap in pay between the sexes.

Plans published by the government would also oblige companies with significant pay gaps to dedicate a “significant share” of any planned pay rises to increasing women’s pay.