Translation of "inégalité des prestations " (French → English) :

37. Points out that Union staff in Delegations and Union staff on CFSP missions in the same localities are treated differently as regards days off, flights, allowances and other benefits; calls for a detailed comparison of payments and benefits for Union Delegation staff and Union staff on CFSP missions in Mogadishu (Somalia) and Bangui (Central African Republic)as of 1 January 2014, for example, and insists that reasons be given where treatment differs;

34. Regrets that the measures implemented have led in the short term to a rise in income distribution inequality; notes that there has been an above-average rise in such inequalities in the four countries; notes that cuts in social benefits and services and rising unemployment resulting from measures contained in the programmes intended to address the macroeconomic situation, as well as wage reductions, are raising poverty levels;

10. Stresses that the causes underlying the gender pay gap remain numerous and complex; considers that this inequality has a strong negative impact on the lives of many women, particularly after retirement age, as lower pay can result in smaller pensions and may be an explanation for the fact that a higher proportion of women than men suffer poverty in old age – 22 % as against 16 %; stresses that in many cases the reason retired women live in poverty is that they have undertaken care tasks, as it is more common for women to take temporary or part-time employment in order to combine work with family responsibilities; therefore calls o ...[+++]n the Commission and Member States to continue their efforts to eliminate these inequalities and ensure equal treatment of men and women in relation to pensions;

11. Regrets that the Green Paper does not devote enough attention to gender issues; considers that the present adequacy gaps in pensions between men and women are the result of persistent inequalities in the labour market, such as periods of unemployment, sickness, care duties, the pay gap between men and women, the overrepresentation of women in precarious and part-time jobs and barriers to reconciling work and private life; the ...[+++]refore calls on the Commission and Member States to continue their efforts to eradicate these inequalities and ensure long-term equal treatment for women and men with respect to pensions, for example through the inclusion of maternity leave and care for elderly family members as actual work giving rise to an entitlement to retirement benefits for men and women;

setting different levels of benefit, except in so far as may be necessary to take account of actuarial calculation factors which differ according to sex in the case of defined-contribution schemes; in the case of funded defined-benefit schemes, certain elements may be unequal where the inequality of the amounts results from the effects of the use of actuarial factors differing according to sex at the time when the scheme's funding is implemented.

The Court of Justice has confirmed that whilst the contributions of male and female workers to a defined-benefit pension scheme are covered by Article 141 of the Treaty, any inequality in employers' contributions paid under funded defined-benefit schemes which is due to the use of actuarial factors differing according to sex is not to be assessed in the light of that same provision.