Gender pay gap and menopause action plans
Implementation date: Not expected before 2026
The Employment Rights Bill includes provision for a duty for larger employers to publish action plans showing the steps they are taking towards gender equality.
Employers must publish plans showing steps taken to:
- address the gender pay gap; and
- support employees going through the menopause.
The detail of what is required will be set out in separate regulations.
The measure will apply to employers with 250 or more employees. It will not apply to organisations in the public sector where specific equality duties already apply.
It is not yet known when these measures will come into force. In its Next Steps to Make Work Pay policy paper, the Government said it expects to begin consulting in 2025 on the various measures covered in the Bill and that it anticipates that "the majority of reforms will take effect no earlier than 2026".
