Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-24-Speech-4-036-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-05-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120524.5.4-036-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-24-Speech-4-037-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Julie Girling2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, equal pay for work of equal value is not an issue which divides us; it is an issue of basic equal opportunities and equal rights. We are united in promoting it. However, we have to be pragmatic about how we deal with it. In my many years of business experience I have been involved with this issue many times. It is not a straightforward case of proclaiming a principle. Painstaking work to benchmark equal value must take place and it comes with a cost. I believe society must be prepared to pay that cost. My problem here is not the principle involved, but the issue of EU legislation. I do not believe that EU legislation will add value. Where companies are failing to follow national legislation, why do we believe that they will react any more favourably to the heavy hand of the Commission? As MEPs, we frequently find ourselves bemoaning the failure of Member States to enforce EU legislation. I look around this Chamber at the intelligent, powerful and impressive women engaged in this issue. Let us not waste our energies denouncing Conservative governments, and concentrate on working in our Member States to get legislation which works."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2012-02-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2012-03-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Julie Girling (ECR )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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