The Union of Public Employees of the Valencian Community (SEP-CV) has received a response from the Labor Inspectorate to the complaint filed in June 2020 due to the municipal refusal to provide the salary information of the workforce disaggregated by sex.
After detailing all the inspection action carried out these months, as final conclusions, the inspection considers it mandatory that the administration attend to the legal obligation to "keep a record with the average values of salaries, salary supplements and extra-salary perceptions of its staff , disaggregated by sex and distributed by professional groups, professional categories or equal jobs or of equal value.” Likewise, the labor authority affirms that in accordance with current legislation “workers have the right to access, through the legal representation of the workers in the company, the salary record of their company.”
In this sense, the City Council provided the union this month with information that showed a significant pay inequality. However, the SEP considers this information incomplete, since it is not detailed in the terms required by the Labor Inspectorate.
The resolution of the Inspection goes beyond what was requested by the SEP and obliges the company to carry out a remuneration audit "to verify whether the company's remuneration system, in a transversal and complete manner, complies with the effective application of the principle of equality between women and men in terms of remuneration.
The inspection also states that “this audit must make it possible to define the needs to avoid, correct and prevent existing obstacles and difficulties or that may arise in order to guarantee equal pay, and ensure transparency and monitoring of said remuneration system. ”
The SEP-CV presented the complaint after a Negotiation Table in which the mayor urged the union representation to file a complaint if they did not agree with the denial of remuneration information. The Union understands that it would have been more reasonable and less expensive to provide the information at that time to the workers of the City Council, as established by Law.
From the SEP they hope that this resolution will serve to abandon the denialism of the government team on inequality and that all municipal unions are allowed to participate in the follow-up of this audit. and
