- Promoting equality in the workplace
- Equality planning at workplaces
- Drafting an equality plan
- Assessment of the gender equality situation in the workplace
- Pay surveys
- The pay survey covers all employees
- Analysing pay and remuneration systems
- Pay comparisons and the classifications/groupings used
- Small groups of employees and groups consisting only of women or of men
- Assessing the reasons for differences in pay and deciding on measures
- Created in cooperation – the employer is responsible
- Measures and review of the implementation
- Information about the equality plan
- Consequences for neglecting equality planning
- Quotas and the equality rule
- Promoting equality in schools and educational institutions
- The educational institution's equality plan
- The aims of equality planning
- Cooperation with the staff and the students
- Questions that require special attention
- Sexual harassment and gender-based harassment at educational institutions
- Assessing the equality conditions in the educational institution
- Agreeing on clear measures
- Drafting an equality plan
- Information and commitment to the equality work
- Assessment and follow-up
- Consequences for neglecting equality planning
- The educational institution's equality plan
Quotas and the equality rule
One of the basic objectives of the Equality Act is to ensure that women and men can participate equally in societal planning and decision-making
Quotas
The proportion of both women and men must be at least 40 per cent in planning and decision-making bodies of central and local government. The quota regulation applies to
- e.g. government committees, advisory boards and working groups
- municipal bodies and bodies established for the purpose of inter-municipal cooperation, excluding municipal councils.
The equality rule
The equality rule is applied to
- executive or administrative bodies of agencies and institutions if they excercise public authority
- executive or administrative bodies of companies in which the Government or a municipality is the majority shareholder
- bodies of indirect public administration, if they exercise public authority. Bodies who exercise public authority are e.g. pension institutions, chambers of commerce, private educational institutions and student unions.