Statement of the Ombudsman for Equality to the Employment and Equality Committee of Parliament on the Ombudsman for Equality’s Report to Parliament 2022 (TAS 249/2022, issued on 24 May 2022)

The Ombudsman for Equality was heard by the Employment and Equality Committee of Parliament on their report to Parliament on 25 May 2022. 

In accordance with section 5 of the Act on the Ombudsman for Equality (1328/2014), the Ombudsman issues a report to Parliament on the realisation of gender equality every four years. 
In the statement they gave to the Employment and Equality Committee of Parliament, the Ombudsman for Equality discussed the recommendations and some key themes of the 2022 Report to Parliament: 

• problems relating to legal protection and the needs to improve legal protection
• equality issues relating to working life, such as pay transparency and the family leave reform
• the needs to change the legislation on trans people and the status of gender minorities 
• genderised violence, hate speech and harassment and
• issues relating to equality in educational institutions. 

25.05.2022