The gender pay gap isn’t going away by itself, so here’s what we can do to eliminate it.
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Big or small, all businesses can be affected by the equal pay claim
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In what could become the UK’s largest ever equal pay claim, Tesco is facing a demand for up to £4 billion in back pay from thousands of female store workers. It has been reported that this could cost the supermarket chain up to £20,000 per worker over at least six years. According to the claim,
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Are employers ready to report gender pay gap in April?
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The latest controversy at the BBC around the gender pay gap highlights ongoing issues facing UK employers on gender pay equality. And with less than three months to go before organisations with 250 or more employees have to report their gender pay and bonus gaps under legislation that sets an April 2018 publication date, XpertHR
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Employers holding back on gender pay gap reporting
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Employers look set to leave publication of their gender pay gap reports until the very last minute rather than stand out by publishing data ahead of their competitors, XpertHR research suggests. Organisations with 250 or more employees have to publish their gender pay and bonus gaps by April 2018 in order to comply with Regulations
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Women will effectively work for free for the rest of 2017
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Consider this: if someone asked you to continue doing your job for free until the end of the year, would you say yes? In the UK, Equal Pay Day marks the point in the year when women effectively stop being paid, while men continue earning. Instant Offices delves into what the legal implications and desired
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Reporting the gender pay gap: a three-step process
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Reporting the gender pay gap is likely to be a lot more complex than we all first believed. The requirements are fairly straight forward – publish six pay averages relating to men and women. However, to understand the results, the analysis will need to go a lot deeper than the legal requirements and there is
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Will the BBC’s gender pay gap impact the future of the law?
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Following the controversy around the BBC and who is paid what, the broadcaster is under increased public and legal scrutiny. Michelle Gray, head of employment at law firm, berg, discusses the expose and why SMEs should also take note of the increasingly important issue around gender pay gap reporting. With the current wave in employment
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One in ten employers admits women are paid less than men
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One in ten employers admit to paying women less than men for jobs at the same level, according to a YouGov survey for the charity Young Women’s Trust. Nearly half say publishing gender pay gaps will not make a difference to pay and a fifth think equal pay will never be achieved. The survey of
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Research reveals the top ten highest paid jobs for women
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The Labour Party has promised to tackle the gender pay gap, regardless of being criticised in the past for not having enough women within the party. They have assured the public that they would match the Tories’ policy of providing 30 free hours of childcare weekly for working mothers, with children aged 2-4 year olds.
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Businesses still need to do more to tackle gender pay gap
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Young Women’s Trust, a charity for women aged 16-30 on low or no pay, is calling for more action to reduce the gender pay gap, as new reporting requirements come into effect in April. The charity fears that pay transparency, intended to encourage employers to reduce the gender pay gap, will be ineffective without enforcement
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