The Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has been participating in a pilot project on financialThe project is a pilot scheme run by the Ministry of Finance and Welfare to implement the equal pay standard. Its aim is to eliminate unexplained pay differences and fulfil employers' legal obligation to pay women and men equal pay, ensuring they receive the same terms and conditions for the same or work of equal value.<\/i><\/p>\n
Initially, a project manager was appointed to handle the planning for the implementation, but after various obstacles had been removed, a steering group, the so-called equal pay council, began its work in early 2016. \u201eThe implementation largely consists of formalising the procedures that have been in place until now. There are no major overhauls involved, but this work has led to various improvement projects,\u201c says Andri \u00d3marsson, project manager at Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Municipality. During this period, the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has formulated a pay policy, updated its equality plan and commissioned an analysis of men's and women's pay. According to the standard, the scope of the system must include all staff, but the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur typically employs around 1,800 staff across 70 locations. \u201eAs the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is a large employer, various projects become enormous and time-consuming. Education, for example, is one factor that affects pay, and so it was considered important to record the staff's education. I think it took us about three months to go through the filing cabinets and record everyone's education in the HR system. But that means we can calculate for the effects of education and other factors in an equal pay audit to find the pay gap that is solely attributable to gender,\u201c says Andri. A Quality Manager was hired by the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur at the beginning of the year, who is bringing a strong contribution to this extensive project, among other things.<\/p>\n
Initial findings from the equal pay review indicate that everything is on the right track, and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's objectives in this area are ambitious. Processes are being reviewed, jobs defined and categorised, and deviations addressed with the aim of eliminating unexplained pay disparities. \u201eOnce we believe we have implemented the standard satisfactorily, we will approach a certification body to confirm that we are working in accordance with the standard's requirements and to obtain the Ministry of Welfare's Equal Pay Mark,\u201c Andri concludes.<\/p>\n
An interview with Andri \u00d3marsson, project manager for the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, was published in Fr\u00e9ttat\u00edminn on Saturday, 11th March.<\/i><\/sup><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r hefur veri\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tttakandi \u00ed tilraunaverkefni fj\u00e1rm\u00e1la- og velfer\u00f0arr\u00e1\u00f0uneytis um innlei\u00f0ingu jafnlaunasta\u00f0als s\u00ed\u00f0an 2013 en markmi\u00f0i\u00f0 er a\u00f0 ey\u00f0a \u00f3\u00fatsk\u00fdr\u00f0um launamun og uppfylla lagaskyldu atvinnurekenda um a\u00f0 grei\u00f0a konum og k\u00f6rlum j\u00f6fn laun og tryggja a\u00f0 \u00feau nj\u00f3ti s\u00f6mu kjara fyrir s\u00f6mu e\u00f0a jafn ver\u00f0m\u00e6t st\u00f6rf. \u00cd upphafi var r\u00e1\u00f0inn verkefnastj\u00f3ri sem sinnti \u00e1\u00e6tlanager\u00f0 vegna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13305"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}