Nearly 17,000 companies did not complete the Gender Equality index

Elisabeth Borne wants to push for gender equality -

The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, indicates in

that 16,680 companies with 50 to 250 employees have not yet completed the professional equality index, mandatory since March, and underlines that a company with more than 250 employees will have to pay a fine.

Since March 2019, each company with at least 250 employees must calculate and publish its gender equality index every year on the internet.

This has also been the case since March 2020 for companies with 50 to 250 employees.

Five criteria and little effort

The index includes five criteria: the gender pay gap (40 points), the gap in annual increases (20 points), the gap in promotions (15 points), increases upon return from maternity leave (15 points) and finally the presence of women among the highest salaries in the company (10 points).

“In March 2020, 77% of companies with more than 1,000 employees had completed their index.

They are now 97%, ”says Elisabeth Borne.

Among those with less than 250 employees, "52% made the effort to fill it in despite the health and economic context", adds the Minister, who will "now mobilize the services of the General Directorate of Labor to contact the 16,680 companies of 50 to 250 employees who have not yet completed this index ”.

Stagnations and some progress anyway

Six months ago, Muriel Pénicaud, the then Minister of Labor, announced that 19 companies were below the score of 75 in 2019. Among them, there was Derichebourg (score of 62), Alsace Croisières CroisiEurope ( 51), Ufifrance Patrimoine (57), Hager electro SAS Obernai (64), Safran Electronics and Defense cockpit solutions (64), Circet (66), Foncia careers and skills (66), Securitas France (66) or Go Sport (74 ).

Elisabeth Borne specified that Safran was no longer on the list but that Derichebourg Propreté "stagnated at 62, Socotec Equipements regressed with 65 and Securitas France at 69".

This year, 4,000 interventions were carried out "despite the emergencies linked to the crisis", with 116 formal notices (including 93 for non-declaration and 21 for lack of corrective measures).

"Shocking" figures

“Two companies were sanctioned.

One of them will have to pay a fine equivalent to 0.8% of its payroll, ”said the minister, adding that sectors“ are lagging behind ”, such as construction, energy or extractive industries.

“I find it shocking that 37% of companies still have fewer than two women in their top ten earners.

There is always a glass ceiling, ”she added, providing for consultation with the social partners in order to complete the index with an additional indicator on the proportion of women in senior management.

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