More and more companies respect the obligation to publish their index of professional equality between women and men, according to the report published Monday by the Ministry of Labor.

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According to the report published Monday by the Ministry of Labor, more and more companies comply with the obligation to publish their index of professional equality between women and men.

However, about fifty of them obtained for the third year in a row a very bad mark which exposes them to penalties.

This score 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).

Obligation to publish your rating

Since 2019, companies with more than 250 employees have been required to publish their overall score out of 100. For companies with 50 to 250 employees, the obligation dates from March 2020. This year, 70% of companies over 50 employees published their rating against 59% last year.

Despite the crisis, "companies are at the rendezvous of the index, a sign that the process has become commonplace", we rejoice at the ministry.

While the average score increases slightly from one year to the next, from 84 to 85 out of 100, only 2% of companies score 100.

Still far from near parity in the ten highest salaries

53 companies with 250 to 1,000 employees (none of more than 1,000) recorded a score below 75 points for the third consecutive year, which exposes them to sanctions of up to 1% of the payroll.

The regional labor offices will contact these companies and do it on a case-by-case basis, it is specified.

Two indicators are lagging behind: increases on return from maternity leave, an obligation since 2006 which has not been respected in 13% of cases, or 3,000 companies according to the ministry, which provides for more checks to make up for these increases not carried out.

Another negative point, only a quarter of companies have almost parity in their ten highest salaries.

43% of companies with more than 1,000 employees (against 37% last year) even have fewer than two women in these ten salaries.

Imposed quotas for women in management bodies?

To advance this issue, a bill by LREM MP Marie-Pierre Rixain could impose quotas for women in the management bodies of companies.

Since 2019, the Ministry and the Labor Inspectorate have carried out 17,500 interventions in companies, resulting in 300 formal notices and 11 financial penalties.

All the global ratings of companies with more than 250 employees are published on the ministry's website.

A decree will soon oblige companies to publish “legibly” the sub-components of their rating, and not just their overall rating.

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