Woman finds male colleagues are paid €500 more per month - investigation proves her right

A female employee was found to be receiving some €6,000 less than her male colleagues when the equality watchdog investigated a local company last year. The employee flagged the issue to the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality after she overheard her co-workers discussing their monthly salaries. Hers, she was shocked to discover, was some €500 less monthly. “We were alerted to this potentially discriminatory situation and immediately started looking into the wages offered to workers of the same designation within this company,” commission sources told this newspaper. “What we found was a situation that was discriminatory,” the sources added. The company was urged to rectify the situation, and Times of Malta is informed the employee has since been offered a €500 monthly increase. It was unclear at the time of writing whether the employee accepted to stay on after discovering the discrimination against her. A female employee from a different company contacted this newspaper with her story of discrimination and how she had discovered she was earning a significantly lower wage and working in inferior conditions to her male colleagues. She left her job the minute she...