Gender pay gap and menopause action plans

Implementation date: Expected 2027

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. 

The Government has confirmed, in Implementing the Employment Rights Bill: Our roadmap for delivering change, that these measures will take effect in 2027.