Ensure employment-friendly wage and other labour cost developments by sustaining and encouraging the right framework for wage-bargaining systems, particularly collective bargaining, while fully respecting the role of the social partners, to ref
lect differences in productivity and labour market trends at national, sectoral and regional level, respecting the autonomy of social partners , monitoring and, where appropriate, reviewing, in collaboration with social agents, the structure and level of non-wage labour costs, especia
lly social security contributions, supervis ...[+++]ing their impact on employment, especially for the low-skilled, young people entering the labour market for the first time, older people wishing to go on working, and people with disabilities, taking specific action to tackle the gender pay gap including more effective implementation of gender equality legislation in relation to equal pay, development of clear up-to-date statistics and follow-up to equality plans (Integrated guideline No 21).