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Gender Pay Equality

Designed to help your organisation tackle the complexities of analysing and measuring your gender pay gap, these pages offer a wide variety of guidance, resources and practical tips.

April 2022 marks the fifth year of gender pay gap reporting in the UK, and for most employers progress in reducing the gap remains slow. The ONS reported in October 2021 that the gender pay gap in the UK had increased to 15.4%, although the figures were affected by the pandemic. We may also see longer term pandemic-related consequences. Organisations who put in place hybrid arrangements should be monitoring how their new ways of working affect gender equality and pay. We discuss our thoughts on the pandemic and the gender pay gap in our article, The gender pay gap in a COVID-19 world – are we falling back on old habits? 

To find out more about the gender pay gap and steps that can be taken to reduce it please see our international Law-Now, Gender pay: What’s needed to make equality a reality?  

And if you are looking beyond pay gap reporting on gender alone read our article on ethnicity pay gap reporting here: What does the future hold for ethnicity pay gap reporting? 

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Mind the gap: making equal pay a reality 21 September 2021

To mark this event, we hosted an international webinar where CMS and guest speakers explored the global issue of equal pay and what organisations need to do to make pay inequality a thing of the past. 

 

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02/03/2021
Six month suspension to the enforcement of gender pay gap reporting
The EHRC recently announced that employers have a six month extension to report their gender pay gap (GPG) for last year’s snapshot date. The normal GPG reporting deadline each year is 4 April, but...
01/04/2019
Mass Equal Pay Claims – Are You Next?
Around 30,000 shop floor workers have cleared the latest hurdle in their equal pay challenge against their supermarket employer, as a result of the Court of Appeal’s decision in ASDA v Brierley. The...
01/04/2019
Marginal gains could be the key to gender pay
This article first appeared in People Management, 21 March 2019Reducing a gender pay gap is not easy, but as Val Dougan explains, adopting a little-by-little approach could significantly improve outcomes...
14/03/2019
5 Golden Rules for Gender Pay Gap Reporting:
This video provides expert views on:The move towards pay transparencyWays in which organisations can reduce their gender pay gapHow to frame the gender pay gap report
13/03/2019
Gender Pay: trends and some golden rules!
The content of the second set of gender pay gap figures inevitably requires different considerations than the first year of reporting, especially if an organisation is acknowledging that their pay gap...
04/03/2019
Year 2 Gender Pay Gap Reporting – Guidance to get you over the line
It’s not long until 4 April 2019, the deadline for private sector year 2 gender pay gap (GPG) reports to be submitted. Last year, according to PayGaps. com, 87% of organisations submitted their GPG...
19/11/2018
Gender pay gap solutions
This webinar talks aboutIdentifying the causes of the gender pay gapUnderstanding solutionsHearing about the Virgin Money approach to gender pay
24/08/2018
Closing the gap - what works?
Effective interventions to close the gender pay gap were the subject of two recent government publications. The first, an evidenced based guide for employers produced by the Equalities Office, evaluates...
23/07/2018
Gender and Pay - the International Perspective
In this edition of On Your Radar we focus on gender and pay across a range of jurisdictions, as we see how different countries are tackling their gender pay gap. Employing staff across borders requires...
13/07/2018
Beyond the gap: some quick wins?
Now that the first cycle of gender pay gap reports have been published, attention will inevitably shift to the content of the year 2 figures, and crucially whether the figure will have reduced. Many organisations...
11/04/2018
Gender Pay Gap reporting - sector analysis by CMS
On 27 March 2018 we published our interim sector analysis of the 2,000 or so employers that had, so far, reported on their gender pay gap. Now that the reporting deadline has passed and over 10,000 employers...
01/06/2016
Higher Education
The recent publication of gender pay gap league tables in higher education shows not only the power of comparative figures, but also the pressure it can place on institutions with higher than average...