Gender pay gap
Gender pay gap reporting legislation requires large employers to publish their overall mean and median gender pay gaps from 2018. Under the new laws, private and voluntary sector employers with 250 or more employees have to calculate their gender pay gap on 5 April each year, publishing their data on the Government’s gender pay gap reporting service by 4 April the following year. For public sector organisations, the snapshot date is 31 March, so the data has to be published no later than 30 March the following year.
2019 employment law: eight changes to look out for
Although Brexit dominates the news, there will be a number of important employment law developments in 2019. Clio Springer sets...
Disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting should be made mandatory
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Stop asking candidates to disclose salary, say employers
Three-quarters of hiring managers think the gender pay gap could be reduced if interviewees were not asked to disclose their...
One third don’t know unequal pay is illegal
One third of employees do not know it is illegal to pay men and women differently for equal work, the...
UK gender pay gap shrinks to all-time low
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Proposed requirement to publish family-friendly policies: implications for employers
The government is exploring the possibility of a new law requiring employers with more than 250 employees to publish details...
One in four gender pay gap reports non-compliant
A quarter of gender pay gap reports submitted for the 2018/19 reporting period are non-compliant, according to independent analysis.
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Six in 10 women consider gender pay gap when job hunting
Nearly two-thirds (61%) of women would take an organisation’s gender pay gap into consideration when looking for a new job,...
Only one in three understand what the gender pay gap is
Almost two-thirds of the British public incorrectly identified what the gender pay gap is and confused it with the issue...
Asking candidates about current salary contributes to gender pay gap
Employers that ask candidates their current salary are partly to blame for the gender pay gap, according to the Young...
Top law firm points to lack of clarity over including partners in gender pay sums
Leading UK-headquartered law firm Allen & Overy (A&O) has come under fire from MPs for failing to include £1.5m of...
Widen gender pay gap reporting to firms with over 50 staff, say MPs
The gender pay gap reporting requirement should be widened to include organisations that employ more than 50 people and the...
Women’s career development is as big a problem as the gender pay gap
It’s not the pay differential that really gets under the skin of female employees, it’s the persistent feeling that men...
Concerns grow over cyber security skills gap
Last week in parliament, MPs and peers accused the government of lacking urgency in its work to tackle the shortage...
Executive pay ratio reporting: Six issues for employers to consider now
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