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Slow progress on gender pay gap in second year of reporting

Aggie Salt

Posted on Apr 11th, 2019 By

Categories: Gender pay gap reporting

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How does last year’s data compare with the figures recently published on the government’s website?
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Slow progress on gender pay gap in second year of reporting

Expanding the female talent pipeline – new government guidance

Michelle Lamb

Posted on Mar 29th, 2019 By

Categories: Employee welfare, Gender pay gap reporting, Government Proposals

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The Government Equalities Office has published some simplified guidance on actions that can help support women's progress in the workplace.
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Expanding the female talent pipeline – new government guidance

The gender pay gap – new guidance issued to help organisations close the gap

Helena Rozman

Posted on Mar 6th, 2019 By

Categories: Gender pay gap reporting, Government Proposals, Pay, benefits and bonuses

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According to the Office for National Statistics, as at June 2018, the national gender pay gap (GPG) stood at 18.4 per cent as an average across all employees. The Government Equalities Office (GEO) has reported that closing this gap will not be a "quick fix" but that reducing the GPG has become a priority for more companies than ever before. With that in mind, the GEO has published two pieces of guidance to support employers so they can recognise and address their GPG.
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The gender pay gap – new guidance issued to help organisations close the gap

Executive pay gap rules now in force

Victoria Middleditch

Posted on Jan 4th, 2019 By

Categories: Compensation, Equal Pay, Gender pay gap reporting, Government Proposals, Pay, benefits and bonuses

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Under regulations which came into force on 1 January 2019, UK-listed companies with more than 250 UK employees must now publish certain executive pay data in their annual reports.
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Executive pay gap rules now in force

Government to propose mandatory ethnic pay gap reporting

Victoria Middleditch

Posted on Oct 18th, 2018 By

Categories: Discrimination, Equal Pay, Gender pay gap reporting, Government Proposals

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As UK companies with more than 250 employees are now required to publish gender pay gap information, the government has turned its attention to the ethnicity pay gap.
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Government to propose mandatory ethnic pay gap reporting

Gender pay gap catalysing change for gender diversity amongst executives

Tom Fancett

Posted on Sep 13th, 2018 By

Categories: Gender pay gap reporting

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Born out of frustration after years of women in the city earning less than their male counterparts, the UK’s gender pay gap reporting regime has provided a sense of optimism amongst executives. Companies have been seriously concerned with the impact on their reputation. With the transparency of published figures, companies risk facing public backlash. With that in mind, many of the larger banks are beginning to pilot new schemes ranging from encouraging women to take on roles that are more male-dominated to attempting to remove gender bias from the recruitment system by anonymised certain information. Several other companies are aiming to pilot similar schemes focusing at the mid-career level for women and if those schemes prove successful to implement them on a larger scale.

Gender pay gap catalysing change for gender diversity amongst executives

Pay gap between younger and older workers

Helena Rozman

Posted on Jul 5th, 2018 By

Categories: Employee welfare, Equal Pay, Gender pay gap reporting, Pay, benefits and bonuses

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The pay gap between the under-30s and over-30s has risen by more than half in the last 20 years, as younger workers are still enduring the residual effects of the financial crisis.
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Pay gap between younger and older workers

The equality of parenting

Claire McKee

Posted on Jun 20th, 2018 By

Categories: Family friendly rights, Gender pay gap reporting, Government Proposals

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In the week after Father's Day in the UK, insurance provider Aviva commissioned a report into Shared Parental Leave (SPL) polling 1,000 fathers and 1,000 mothers with children aged 16 and under nationwide. Despite the legislation on SPL being in force since 2015 and the recent government campaign "Share the Joy", intended to raise awareness (which we talked about here), half of working fathers haven't heard of SPL. This is particularly disappointing as nine out of 10 parents are reported as believing mums and dads should be given equal parental leave.
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The equality of parenting

“Pitiful” and “patronising” – the excuses given for the lack of female presence in FTSE boardrooms

Tom Fancett

Posted on May 31st, 2018 By

Categories: Discrimination, Employee welfare, Equal Pay, Gender pay gap reporting

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The Hampton-Alexander Review, an independent review backed by the government to scrutinise the gender balance of boards at the top of the country's leading companies, released a report this week which lists some of the excuses given by companies for a lack of female representation on their boards.
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“Pitiful” and “patronising” – the excuses given for the lack of female presence in FTSE boardrooms

EHRC gender pay gap investigations

Posted on May 3rd, 2018 By

Categories: Discrimination, Gender pay gap reporting, Pay, benefits and bonuses

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to the Government informing it that in June it will be commencing the first of its gender pay gap investigations into employers who have failed to comply with their gender pay gap (GPG) reporting obligations. The announcement should not come as a surprise as the EHRC issued a warning prior to 4 April 2018 deadline that any companies which failed to comply with their reporting obligations could face enforcement action in the form of a fine or an investigation.
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EHRC gender pay gap investigations