The Government has extended the communication by the state business sector of the 2023 equality plans for two months, until November 15, and the publication of recommendations on equality plans, until February 20.
The Government, in an order published this Thursday, justifies these postponements with the pandemic situation caused by the Covid-19 disease, in the last three years, which caused a public health emergency to which a response had to be given in health matters.
Despite a positive and significant evolution, there is still a significant impact on economic activity, with companies facing difficulties at the operational level and in the continuity of their activity in full, in addition to a strong contraction of the market, aggravated by the impact that the armed conflict in Ukraine has had on the international economy and specifically on the national economy”, he justifies in the order.
The executive points out that these plans they are a management tool that promotes gender equality in a business context and that the law determines that companies listed on the stock exchange, companies in the state business sector and companies in the local business sector have to make an annual presentation of the respective Equality Plan.
“Thus, it is still necessary, in this context of exceptionality, to take exceptional and temporary measures to mitigate these impacts and avoid situations of non-compliance derived from them, specifically with regard to the obligation to deliver equality plans by companies. entities of the state sector, by the entities of the local business sector and by the companies listed on the stock exchange”, he argues.
Before the modification published this Thursday, the equality plans for each year had to be communicated annually before September 15 of the previous year to which they refer and the publication of recommendations was before December 20 of each year.
Source: Observadora
