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“We are still miles away from real equality in professional life,” criticized Upper Austrian AK president Johann Kalliauer in a broadcast on Sunday.
According to AK, the well-trained female employee approached the worker representatives because she had a feeling that her employer was not being paid fairly. The AK found the woman to be right. Previous work periods were not taken into account correctly, the classification in the corresponding collective agreement employment group did not fit, and furthermore, both employers paid less than their male colleagues in comparable positions.
Forbidden but not unusual
The Equal Treatment Act prohibits discrimination in the world of work on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, age or sexual orientation. In Austria, however, the income differences between men and women are very pronounced.
Even if a woman works full-time throughout the year, at the end of the year she has on average more than a fifth less on the payroll than a man, according to the AK with reference to Upper Austria. In 2018, this difference was 12,500 euros per year. Only Vorarlberg did worse here in a comparison of the federal states. One reason for this is that typical women’s jobs still pay less than jobs in the so-called men’s sectors.
