First Icelandic municipality to receive equal pay certification
Hafnarfjörður is the first municipality in Iceland to receive the certified equal pay mark from the Ministry of Welfare. The aim of the implementation is to establish and maintain pay equality within the City of Hafnarfjörður and to fulfil the duties of employers to ensure equal rights for women and men, pay them equal wages and ensure they enjoy the same terms and conditions for the same or equal work.
Hafnarfjörður is the first municipality in Iceland to receive the certified equal pay mark from the Ministry of Welfare. The aim of the implementation is to establish and maintain pay equality within the City of Hafnarfjörður and to fulfil the duties of employers to ensure equal rights for women and men, pay them equal wages and ensure they enjoy the same terms and conditions for the same or equal work.
With certification from the certification body, BSI in Iceland, as well as the equal pay mark from the Ministry of Welfare, the Municipality of Hafnarfjörður can truly confirm that it meets the requirements set out in the equal pay standard, ÍST 85:2012.
These include:
- Ensure that all decisions regarding pay and conditions are documented, justified and traceable.
- Procedures, job descriptions and instructions are in place.
- Legal and other requirements are met
- Preventative measures and action plans are in place.
- The areas of responsibility and roles of key personnel are defined.
- That pay decisions reflect that the same pay is paid for comparable work.
An equal pay system therefore provides managers with a clearer view of pay analyses, improvement projects, the follow-up of actions, and confirmation that the established equality policy is being followed.
„We are extremely proud to be the first local authority in the country to receive a certified equal pay system. It was quite an undertaking to go through this process and we are proud of and grateful to the staff at the Town Hall for how well the work has gone,“ said Guðlaug Kristjánsdóttir, Mayor of Hafnarfjörður, on the occasion of the implementation. „Besides the obvious point that the certification guarantees equal pay regardless of gender, it is also a tool for maintaining good discipline in these decision-making processes.“
The working group that managed the implementation was appointed by Andri Ómarsson, Project Manager; Berglind Guðrún Bergþórsdóttir, Human Resources Manager; Haraldur Eggertsson, Project Manager; and Lúvísa Sigurðardóttir, Quality Manager.
More about BSI's equal pay certification
http://bsiaislandi.is/namskeid/jafnlaunavottun/innleiding-jafnlaunakerfis/