The Finnish government has cancelled plans to overhaul equality legislation aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, the government said in a statement on Monday.
The government said the ruling parties had not reached an agreement over how to strengthen pay transparency with legislation, as they vowed to do in a program published after Prime Minister Sanna Marin took the reins in late 2019.
"The work to prevent gender-based pay discrimination and advancing pay equality will continue in other government actions supporting equal pay," Equality Minister Thomas Blomqvist said.
Last November, Mr Blomqvist told Reuters Finland would take a more rigorous approach to the "elimination of unjustified pay gaps".
With a 16% average pay gap, Finland placed 38th in an OECD pay equality ranking for 2021, well behind its Nordic peers.
