Argentina
Red Purse + Red Shoes Campaign 2012
The first Latin America Equal Pay Day Campaign joined forces with another campaign called the Red Shoes Campaign from USA, and a congressman who opened the city Legislature to make this Equal Pay Day a reality and came to support it because in Argentina does not exist an official equal pay day. Men and women present learned a lot. This was published on the Legislature website, and Mariela Dabbah as a writer got an interview in CNN in Spanish and explained there the alliance and both campaigns.
More informations in the presentation below.
RED-PURSE_RED-SHOES_Argentina_2012.pdf
More informations in the presentation below.
RED-PURSE_RED-SHOES_Argentina_2012.pdf
Equal Pay Day as a Project of Law
On October 24, the Constitutional Assembly gathered in Santa Fe, definitively incorporated the text of our constitution, Article 14a, containing the social, labor, individual and collective. This incorporation also recognizes, as background, the reform of the Constitution that had been adopted in 1949 and which was later repealed by the military regime started with the Liberating Revolution of 1955.
Crisologo Larralde was the driver of this incorporation finally put our Constitution in the highest standards of protection of labor rights, in consensus with the world's most advanced legislation.
Our Constitution states, since, in its Article 14 bis: "The work in its various forms shall enjoy the protection of the laws, which ensure to workers: dignified and equitable working; limited time, rest and paid vacations; remuneration fair; adjustable minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, participation in company profits, with production control and collaboration in the management, protection against arbitrary dismissal; stability of public employment, free and democratic union, recognized for the simple inscription in a special register. hereby guaranteed guilds: enter collective bargaining agreements; recourse to conciliation and arbitration, the right to strike. Union representatives shall have the guarantees necessary for the fulfillment of their union and those related to the stability of their employment. The State shall grant the benefits of social security, which shall be an integral and indispensable. Specifically, the law will establish: compulsory social insurance, which will be in charge of national or provincial autonomy financial and economic stakeholders managed with state ownership, but must not be overlapping of contributions, retirement and pensions; comprehensive protection of the family, the defense of the homestead, family allowances and access to
housing worthy. "
Likewise, national laws have incorporated the rules of Convention 100 of the International Labour Organization Equal Remuneration which reads: "Each Member shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration, promote and as far as is consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal pay for male labor and female labor for work of equal value. "
However, worldwide, there are signs frequent and sometimes very marked inequality in the work of the working man and woman, both in their conditions of work, income, and with respect to the remuneration received engaging in the same tasks.
Argentina is no exception to this reality and so we need to promote an awareness campaign and a series of positive measures to reverse, promoting real equality between women and men in the exercise of their rights.
It is necessary to investigate the reasons why, after so many years of recognition of equality, wage inequality that still exists, committing states, employers and workers' representatives and workers, to ensure equal pay for equal work.
Coordinator of the Southern Cone Union (CCSCS) has launched a campaign for pay equity between men and women and presented at the IX Summit Association which was held in Montevideo, since Mercosur workers earn 30% less
pay men.
Moreover, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, and its subsidiaries in Argentina, are waging a campaign called visual and action EQUAL PAY / DAY, and drive the declaration of a Pay Equity Day. They say: "The fact is that all over the world, in all countries whether they are in the process of economic development, at any level or are affluent, women still earn less for doing the same job as a man. Regardless the history of a nation, its economic position or the efforts made to address other areas of gender inequality ... there is, to our knowledge, no country in the world where women receive equal pay for equal work. A Pay Equity Day marks how far into the next financial year, a woman would have to work before they earn the same amount as a man earned in the previous fiscal year only.
While unequal wages across as harsh reality both in all countries, in all social sectors and even those with high skill levels (which are also added difficulties for women to access on equal terms to the decision areas), the fact is that the most affected by this discriminatory treatment, are the poorest, those working in the informal economy and those on lower wages.
For these reasons, and reasons that will be expanded on the occasion of the debate, we believe it appropriate and necessary to establish the National Day of Pay Equity, and the launch of a campaign to raise awareness and positive action to promote real equality for women wage and males. And therefore, we request the approval of this project.
proyecto_del_ley.pdf
Crisologo Larralde was the driver of this incorporation finally put our Constitution in the highest standards of protection of labor rights, in consensus with the world's most advanced legislation.
Our Constitution states, since, in its Article 14 bis: "The work in its various forms shall enjoy the protection of the laws, which ensure to workers: dignified and equitable working; limited time, rest and paid vacations; remuneration fair; adjustable minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, participation in company profits, with production control and collaboration in the management, protection against arbitrary dismissal; stability of public employment, free and democratic union, recognized for the simple inscription in a special register. hereby guaranteed guilds: enter collective bargaining agreements; recourse to conciliation and arbitration, the right to strike. Union representatives shall have the guarantees necessary for the fulfillment of their union and those related to the stability of their employment. The State shall grant the benefits of social security, which shall be an integral and indispensable. Specifically, the law will establish: compulsory social insurance, which will be in charge of national or provincial autonomy financial and economic stakeholders managed with state ownership, but must not be overlapping of contributions, retirement and pensions; comprehensive protection of the family, the defense of the homestead, family allowances and access to
housing worthy. "
Likewise, national laws have incorporated the rules of Convention 100 of the International Labour Organization Equal Remuneration which reads: "Each Member shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration, promote and as far as is consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal pay for male labor and female labor for work of equal value. "
However, worldwide, there are signs frequent and sometimes very marked inequality in the work of the working man and woman, both in their conditions of work, income, and with respect to the remuneration received engaging in the same tasks.
Argentina is no exception to this reality and so we need to promote an awareness campaign and a series of positive measures to reverse, promoting real equality between women and men in the exercise of their rights.
It is necessary to investigate the reasons why, after so many years of recognition of equality, wage inequality that still exists, committing states, employers and workers' representatives and workers, to ensure equal pay for equal work.
Coordinator of the Southern Cone Union (CCSCS) has launched a campaign for pay equity between men and women and presented at the IX Summit Association which was held in Montevideo, since Mercosur workers earn 30% less
pay men.
Moreover, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, and its subsidiaries in Argentina, are waging a campaign called visual and action EQUAL PAY / DAY, and drive the declaration of a Pay Equity Day. They say: "The fact is that all over the world, in all countries whether they are in the process of economic development, at any level or are affluent, women still earn less for doing the same job as a man. Regardless the history of a nation, its economic position or the efforts made to address other areas of gender inequality ... there is, to our knowledge, no country in the world where women receive equal pay for equal work. A Pay Equity Day marks how far into the next financial year, a woman would have to work before they earn the same amount as a man earned in the previous fiscal year only.
While unequal wages across as harsh reality both in all countries, in all social sectors and even those with high skill levels (which are also added difficulties for women to access on equal terms to the decision areas), the fact is that the most affected by this discriminatory treatment, are the poorest, those working in the informal economy and those on lower wages.
For these reasons, and reasons that will be expanded on the occasion of the debate, we believe it appropriate and necessary to establish the National Day of Pay Equity, and the launch of a campaign to raise awareness and positive action to promote real equality for women wage and males. And therefore, we request the approval of this project.
proyecto_del_ley.pdf