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A total of 29 companies, including giants technological Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, pledged today to pay the same employees that their employees by joining an initiative launched in June by US President Barack Obama to promote wage equality in the country.
among US companies pledged today to reduce the wage gap between men and women are also Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nike, Visa, Delta airlines, the Hilton hotel chain, the social network LinkedIn and division of Ikea in the United States, according to the White House said in a statement.
“in 2016, the average women still earning only 79 cents for every dollar earned an average man” in American business, said the director of domestic policy of the White House, Cecilia Muñoz, in a message posted on the official blog American presidency.
“That figure drops to 64 cents for African American women, 59 for native American and 54 for Latinas,” he said.
the wage gap also are noted in the “overtime pay, contributions to retirement and social security”, so although the difference may be small at first, grows over time, Muñoz said.
with today’s announcement, there are more than 50 companies that have pledged to “make an annual analysis of payment” to employees of both genders and “review their recruitment and promotion” of employees to “reduce unconscious biases and structural barriers, “among other measures, said the White House.
Apple said in the statement from the White House, over the last year, managed to close the wage gap between employees of both genders, and if resurface inequalities, will face.
Facebook, meanwhile, said that his company “men and women earn the same”, while Microsoft said it is committed to “equal pay” and “opportunities” to both genders.
Other companies that have committed to the initiative are the multinational Unilever, the US chain of superstores Target chain CVS pharmacies, IBM and Intel software, and technology Dropbox, MailChimp and MuleSoft
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