Finnish government withdraws legislative plans to increase pay transparency

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish government has cancelled plans to overhaul equality legislation aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women in Finland, 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.

(Reporting by Essi Lehto; Editing by Jan Harvey)