Rationale for the Equality Council's recognition of equality:<\/strong><\/p>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is a progressive municipality in the field of equality issues and this summer, the first of Icelandic municipalities, received certification for its pay system, which meets the requirements of the Equal Pay Standard.<\/p>\n
The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has been working purposefully towards pay equality since 2013, when the municipality joined a pilot project by the Ministry of Finance and Welfare to implement an equal pay system in accordance with the equal pay standard.<\/p>\n
The aim of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in participating in the project was to establish and maintain pay equality among the city's employees by ensuring that women and men have equal rights to the same pay for the same or equally valuable work. <\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur operates under a municipal job evaluation system, which provides a standardised assessment of different jobs. The job evaluation makes the basis for pay grading transparent, making it possible to determine the same pay for comparable or equally valuable jobs, regardless of gender, job position or trade union.<\/p>\n
Today, an equal pay council operates within the Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, its representatives are appointed by the municipality's department heads and they act on behalf of its senior management. The council's main task is to implement an action plan and ensure effective oversight of pay decisions, which includes, among other things:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Review of the pay analysis and the action plan based on it
\u2022 Review of submitted suggestions
\u2022 Implementation of internal controls and audits
\u2022 To inform senior management of the project status
\u2022 Providing all staff with information about the council's equal pay scheme<\/p>\n
The equal pay system facilitates visibility and monitoring of how the municipality's objectives to work towards and maintain pay equality are followed up on in an open and transparent manner.
Another objective of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, in addition to working to ensure equal pay for women and men, is to use its equality plan to promote the most equal gender balance in management positions and in certain occupations within the municipality. This is implemented through a regular review of the number of managers by gender and the gender ratio within specific professions, and action is taken to address gender imbalances where appropriate.<\/p>\n
The Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur adopted an Equality and Human Rights Policy at the beginning of 2017. It was developed by a cross-party working group that the Head of Human Resources worked with, and according to it, targeted work is to be carried out against all discrimination. The policy applies to the municipality's various roles, namely as a public authority, an employer, a service provider, and in its partnerships. All municipal institutions are required to operate in accordance with it, and each institution appoints an equality lead, whose role is to be the champion of gender mainstreaming in all of the municipality's work.<\/p>\n
From the above, it can be seen that the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur pursues a very progressive and ambitious policy on equality issues. This targeted work by the municipality in the field of equality, including the equal pay certification, makes Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur a comprehensive pioneer in equality at the local government level. The experience and knowledge that the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has built up through its ambitious work should serve as an example and an encouragement to other municipalities. We therefore believe that the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is well deserving of the Equality Council's equality award. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00cd dag afhenti \u00deorsteinn V\u00edglundsson, f\u00e9lags- og jafnr\u00e9ttism\u00e1lar\u00e1\u00f0herra, jafnr\u00e9ttisvi\u00f0urkenningu Jafnr\u00e9ttisr\u00e1\u00f0s vi\u00f0 h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0lega ath\u00f6fn \u00ed Hannesarholti. Frams\u00e6kin og metna\u00f0arfull stefna Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar gerir sveitarf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 a\u00f0 heildst\u00e6\u00f0um brautry\u00f0jenda \u00e1 svi\u00f0i jafnr\u00e9ttism\u00e1la segir \u00ed r\u00f6kstu\u00f0ningi Jafnr\u00e9ttisr\u00e1\u00f0s. \u00dea\u00f0 var Haraldur L. Haraldsson sem t\u00f3k \u00e1 m\u00f3ti ver\u00f0laununum fyrir h\u00f6nd Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar \u00e1samt h\u00f3pi fr\u00e1 hinum \u00fdmsu starfsst\u00f6\u00f0um b\u00e6jarins og fulltr\u00faum \u00ed […]<\/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-13453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453","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=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}