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If you are an employer, we remind you of your obligations in terms of employment equality, since from March 7, 2022, as a general rule, all companies with 50 or more employees must have an Equality Plan publicly traded and registered.
What is the Equality Plan?
It is a set of measures that seek to achieve equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in companies. It also aims to identify and eliminate the pay gap and gender discrimination.
Its implementation in the business field is an instrument that allows equality to be integrated in labor relations and in all areas of management and organization. This is intended to advance towards the achievement of effective equality between men and women.
Without forgetting that the implementation of this measure makes it possible to opt for aid, subsidies or bonuses, as well as to have preference in the awarding of public contracts, which is an incentive for many organizations.
Which companies must have an Equality Plan
Companies have the obligation to draw up and apply an Equality Plan in the following cases:
- If they are bound by the collective agreement itself.
- If they have more than 50 employees.
- When the labor authority, with prior sanctioning procedure, has agreed to replace the sanction with the implementation of an Equality Plan.
LGBTI Plan
After the approval of Law 4/2023 for the real and effective equality of trans people, companies with more than 50 employees are also obliged, since last March 2, to implement an LGTBI Protocol
This document must collect the measures that guarantee the real and effective equality of the LGTBI group, in addition to including an action protocol to be able to prevent, detect and act in the event of a situation of harassment of workers.
Aid and public tenders
In its progress towards equality in the business sector, the Government establishes as an essential requirement to have the Equality Plan to access grants and public tenders.
Companies that do not have an Equality Plan face financial sanctions that can range from serious misconduct, with fines of 626 to 6,250 euros. The very serious fault, which ranges from 6,251 to 187,515 euros.
Do you want to know more about what obligations and responsibilities employers have?