Reporting gender pay gaps
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a voluntary scheme for reporting on gender pay gaps in the private sector - something that very few firms currently do. But many HR professionals feel that transparency will do little to tackle the deep-rooted causes of gender pay inequality. This feature explains what employers are expected to report on and how.
On this page:
Tackling the gender pay
gap
Pay transparency
Voluntary scheme
backed by legislative threat
Mandatory reporting for public
sector
Table 1: Gender pay gap statistics
Company reporting requirements
Box 1: Summary of
EHRC proposals for reporting on gender pay gaps
Why should
private sector firms report on equal pay?
Box 2: BITC's
advice on what an organisation's equal pay narrative could contain
Equal pay and good corporate governance
Current
private sector activity
Identifying gender
pay gaps using HR & Compliance Centre Job Pricing
Next steps in gender pay
gap reporting
Additional resources on HR & Compliance Centre.
