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Gender pay gap
All EU member states have until 7 June 2026 to transpose the provisions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into national law. With new rules on reporting, affected employers will be required to submit gender pay gap reports by 6 June 2027, based on 2026 data. With the clock ticking, employers operating in the EU need to take decisive action and prepare for the new rules.
Now that the annual deadline has passed, it is a good time to analyse your organisation's gender pay gap calculation in detail. Understanding your data is key to developing strategies to move forward and make progress.
The deadline for gender pay gap reporting has now passed and more than 10,000 organisations have shared information on their gender pay and bonus gaps. We report on the headline data and unearth some of the trends.
In the first of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Act 2025, we look at the plan to require large employers to publish an action plan on the steps that they are taking to address the gender pay gap and support employees going through the menopause.
This year marks the seventh time that organisations have had to report their gender pay and bonus gaps. While many still leave this to the very end of the reporting year, is progress nonetheless being made on closing these gaps? We look at the latest data.
To address the gender pay gap across its member states, the EU recently approved the Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970/EU). The Directive introduces reporting requirements and obliges employers to take steps to address pay inequalities, and must be transposed into national legislation by 7 June 2026. Rocio Carracedo Lopez, international legal editor at XpertHR, examines the new rules and discusses their implications for employers operating across the EU - and in the UK.
The Government has released its guidance on ethnicity pay reporting. Here, HR, finance and leadership specialist and author Roianne Nedd considers some of the approach's assumptions and shortcomings, and makes three recommendations to help employers tackle ethnicity pay inequalities.
The Government has published guidance for employers that wish to report their ethnicity pay gap. We look at the government guidelines around what data to collect, how to analyse and make sense of the results, and how to develop an action plan to remedy any differences revealed by the data.
The gender pay gap has declined slightly, although the majority of organisations continue to have a gap in favour of males. We explore a number of statistics covering pay and bonus gaps, with details of broad sector and industry.
HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.
Commentary and insights: HR and legal information and guidance relating to the gender pay gap.