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"en.20081118.26.2-250"2
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"The Communist Party of Greece voted against the report, because it uses equal pay to reduce working women’s rights to the lowest common denominator. Working women should not forget that, on the pretext of applying the euro-unifying legislation on gender equality, the EU and the centre-left and centre-right governments of the Member States have proceeded to abolish their vested rights, such as the ban on night work for women. The EU and the New Democracy and PASOK parties have used the same legislation to engineer an increase in the retirement age for female civil servants in the name of abolishing discrimination and of gender equality.
Not only does the report fail to address the real causes of unequal pay between men and women for the same work, and the fact that women and young people are the first victims of part-time work, flexible contracts of employment and flexicurity, on the contrary, the solutions it proposes move in precisely this direction. The argument of ‘reconciling family life and work’ is used to generalise flexible forms of employment for women and propose hot money from public funds and public works contracts and financing as a reward for ’good capitalists’ who apply what is self-evident: an equal day’s pay for an equal day’s work for men and women."@en1
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