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Recently I have been asked about two very similar situations in which, in each case, the roles in each company’s HR team were being compared with those in its Finance team. It’s a very common comparison. The problem was that... Read more
I’m sure you will be aware of the ‘market rate’ factor which can justify a pay differential between those of the opposite sex whose roles are (or are claimed to be) comparable under equal pay legislation. It’s usually the obvious... Read more
As I speak to more and more businesses about pay equality, I’m finding that most senior executives still don’t appreciate the hidden risks posed by ‘equal value’ claims for equal pay. And indeed that’s the case with quite a few... Read more
In all the commentary written on the Gender Pay Gap reporting (GPGR – not to be confused with GDPR) legislation, very little has touched on the consequences of an employer failing to comply with its duty to report and publish.... Read more
Here’s a tale of what not to do with your gender pay gap (GPG) figures – especially if any medium/large employer was hoping that they might be able to either bury their GPG away quietly or put out some false... Read more
Today, Friday 10th November is apparently 2017’s ‘Equal Pay Day’, symbolising the day of the year on which the average woman stops being paid, in comparison with the average man, if they both work for the whole year – based... Read more
Back in 2010 the new Equality Act outlawed any contractual clause that seeks to prohibit an employee from discussing their pay with a colleague. Nowadays we all need to assume that employees in every type of organisation are potentially discussing... Read more
Whether you’re now a proper Gender Pay Gap (GPG) ‘geek’ and are all ready to report your GPG data, confident that you’ve crunched the right numbers, or you’ve not even starting thinking about your GPG, your immediate next step once... Read more
For all of you responsible for reporting your organisation’s Gender Pay Gap (GPG), it’s time to get cracking. Your ‘snapshot’ pay date has come and gone (where did the time go?) and the Government’s GPG reporting website is up and... Read more
There are quite a lot of things we don’t yet know about the Gender Pay Gap figures that all larger employers are shortly going to have to calculate and publish. The long-promised ACAS guidance on how precisely to calculate and... Read more
At the risk of a backlash from my colleagues for adopting a Daily Mail style title for this blog, I am genuinely pleased to see that common sense does indeed seem to have prevailed in the recent case of Stratford... Read more
In recent years we’ve advised several businesses who have been in dispute over a recruitment agency fee. We’ve seen it from the client’s point of view, and also from that of the first agency who introduced a candidate and from... Read more
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