Male employees who work for Apple in the United Kingdom earn five percent more on average than women, according to a
UK Gender Pay Gap report released today by Apple [PDF].
2017 was a busy year for HR and employment law practitioners and 2018 looks full of challenges too,
with gender pay gap reporting and data protection regulation being top of many agendas in the first quarter.
The Government has now published the finalised Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations 2016, which will
make gender pay gap reporting mandatory for employers with at le..
We agree with the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee's
recent Gender Pay Gap report that we should be obliging employers to offer all jobs on the basis that they can be worked flexibly unless they can demonstrate an immediate and continuing business case against doing so; and that the government should extend its requirement for UK companies to publish data about their gender pay gap to all firms employing more than 150 staff, from April 2018.
Extend gender pay gap reporting to employers with 50 employees or more and include data on other protected characteristics such as race, disability and LGBT status (with due consideration to privacy);
«General counsel and procurement teams will ask harder questions of their law firm advisers in respect of cyber security and gender diversity, particularly after
gender pay gap reporting kicks in with regards to the latter,» he said.
The Government has finally published its draft The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016, which will
make gender pay gap reporting mandatory..
DLA Piper has revealed that its male staff are, on average, paid bonuses 53.6 % higher than women in the firm's
UK gender pay gap report, released yesterday (21 March).
Politicians, the media and your employees must be able to see you are committed to change and understand the value and purpose
of gender pay gap reporting.
The introduction of
mandatory gender pay gap reporting will force employers to be up front about gender related pay and either explain the differences they uncover or risk costly equal pay claims.»
The question is no longer, «Should you issue
a gender pay gap report?»
but «How and when should u issue
a gender pay gap report?»
In Lloyd's
gender pay gap report, the company said it had a 50:50 gender balance across the executive committee, however within the highest paying quartile, 66.2 percent were men, compared to 33.8 percent women.
2 Sisters Food Group has published
its Gender Pay Gap report and unveiled a series of initiatives to improve diversity, gender, equality pay and opportunity across its business.
The AAUW released
its gender pay gap report Thursday and recommends that New York lawmakers support additional legislative actions to close the gap.
This will no doubt continue to be the case bearing in mind that from April 2018
Gender pay gap reporting will commence.
The gender pay gap reports offer a welcome degree of transparency.
Gender pay gap reporting will cause dissatisfaction in the workforce and increase the disconnect among staff.
One of few countermeasures is
the gender pay gap reporting scheme, which so far has seemed effective in shedding light on some of the companies of which females are affected.
Forward planning may be key and engaging positively and proactively with
the gender pay gap reporting requirements now may turn out to be time well spent.
With a month to go until
the gender pay gap reporting deadline, only 1,000 companies have submitted their reports.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has published
its gender pay gap report, revealing a much smaller gap than many of its rivals, in part due to the volume of support staff now based in the firm's Manchester legal services centre.
Gender pay gap reporting is another regulatory burden for businesses, on top of a host of other changes such as Pay as You Earn (PAYE), auto - enrolment and immigration.
As the UK's
Gender Pay Gap reporting legislation recently came into force, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, explains to Lawyer Monthly the potential effectiveness of the new rules and the implementation thereof.
Since 4th April 2017 all businesses with over 250 employees have been required to publish
their gender pay gap reports.
There is no statutory requirement for law firms to include partners in
their gender pay gap reporting, but a growing number have now made the decision to, including Dentons, Eversheds Sutherland, Reed Smith, Irwin Mitchell and Norton Rose Fulbright.
Clifford Chance (CC) has become the first magic circle firm to include equity partners in
its gender pay gap report.
The firm, which last month became the first of the magic circle to file
its gender pay gap report, revealing a pay gap of 23 % for non-partner employees, has now announced that when including partners, the overall gender pay gap for all employees and lawyers rises to 60.3 %.
He has worked in PwC's legal services business since 2009 and headed its employment law practice since 2012, playing a key role in advising firms on
their gender pay gap reporting requirements.
Particular areas of legal focus at present include GDPR and
gender pay gap reporting.
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that we will see famous brands being boycotted because
their gender pay gap reports reveal that they do not have an inclusive culture.
While the Department of Education, which has responsibility for
the gender pay gap reporting process, does not check the data submitted, the submissions are being tracked by third parties including the media.