5. Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)

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Report with recommendations to the Commission on application of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value [2011/2285(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteur: Edit Bauer (A7-0160/2012)

Edit Bauer introduced the report.

The following spoke: Janez Potočnik (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Mariya Nedelcheva, on behalf of the PPE Group, Britta Thomsen, on behalf of the S&D Group, Siiri Oviir, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Franziska Katharina Brantner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Andrea Češková, on behalf of the ECR Group, Inês Cristina Zuber, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Gabriele Zimmer (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Iratxe García Pérez, Antonyia Parvanova, Ana Miranda, Marina Yannakoudakis, Christa Klaß, Joanna Senyszyn, Norica Nicolai, Marije Cornelissen, David Campbell Bannerman, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Lena Kolarska-Bobińska and Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Mikael Gustafsson, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Silvia Costa, Julie Girling, who also replied to a blue-card question by Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Anna Záborská, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Roberta Angelilli, Marita Ulvskog, Seán Kelly, Frédéric Daerden, Elena Băsescu and Barbara Matera.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Iosif Matula, Anna Hedh, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Romana Jordan, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Jaroslav Paška.

The following spoke: Janez Potočnik and Edit Bauer.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 24.5.2012, item 10.6.