Recently at joint session of Milli Majlis Commissions on Human Rights and Law Policy & Statehood Affairs was discussed the bill on Promote Gender Equality. The bill says that this law aims at guaranteeing men and women equal rights in political, economic, social, cultural, etc. fields of the public life, and eliminating all forms of discrimination on gender ground. According to the bill, if the person subjected to discrimination on gender ground by employer complains of him, the employer has no rights to pressure. Regardless of gender, all employees making the same work, working under the same conditions and having the same level of skill, should get an equal wage, including award fee and incentive fee. The bill is considered to compensate for suffering from discrimination on gender ground.
Rabiyyat Aslanova, Chairman of MM Commission on Human Rights, informed that this bill has been subjected to substantial changes since first reading. According to her, for this period in connection with the bill the Parliament received the recommendations of the Council of Europe, OSCE, and State Committee for Family, Women & Children Problems: "All the recommendations were made due to the importance of this law".
Kamran Shafiyev, Member of the Presidential Administration, informed about amendments made to the law. According to him, the matter concerning some amendments and appendix to the bill remains open and it will be finally discussed after second reading.
Then R. Aslanova noted that in general, this bill interested all international organizations operating in Azerbaijan: "Taking into consideration this fact we have decided to hold a conference scheduled for 23-24 May. I call all Members of Milli Majlis, especially those who are members of our Commission to take an active part".
Ali Huseynov, Chairman of MM Commission on Law Policy & Statehood, noted that in order to promote gender equality it would be better to take points provided for compliance of Azerbaijan legislation with international standards: "Our country has a perfect legislation appliances. I think that this point should be provided both in this bill and in others".
After multilateral debates the bill was submitted to the Milli Majlis.

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