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 XpertHR Job Pricing
Next steps in gender pay
gap reporting
Additional resources on XpertHR.