Gender Pay Gap Archives - Ashtons Legal

Gender equality in the workplace: exploring the gender pay gap

PostedMarch 8, 2021

In 2020, the UK reported a gender pay gap of 15.5%, in favour of men. This means on average, men are paid more than women. The gender pay gap is...

Gender Pay Gap Reporting Suspended

PostedMarch 31, 2020

Due to the coronavirus crisis and the impact on businesses, the decision has been taken to remove the obligation to report gender pay gap data this year. All enforcement has...

First gender pay gap reporting deadline passes

PostedApril 5, 2018

The deadline has now passed for the first year of gender pay gap reporting, and the results make for interesting reading. Over 10,000 companies have reported the gender pay gap...

Ashtons Legal Gender Pay Gap Report

PostedApril 3, 2018

All UK businesses with more than 250 employees are now required to complete a gender pay gap analysis and publish the results. The aim is to help ensure fairness and...

Women in the Workplace – International Women’s Day 2018

PostedMarch 7, 2018

As a woman on the eve of International Women’s Day 2018, I consider there to be three major issues in the workplace that affect women in particular at present: Flexible...

Part time workers bear the brunt of gender pay gap

PostedFebruary 7, 2018

Research has revealed those in part time work are most likely to suffer from the gender ‘pay penalty’ with women disproportionately affected as a result of making up the vast...

Retirement gender pay gap

PostedJuly 13, 2017

A recent study by Prudential found women retiring this year will be on average £6,400 worse off per year than their male counterparts. The “retirement income gender gap”, as it...

HR Managers focusing on employee engagement

PostedMay 25, 2017

East Anglian HR Managers and staff are seemingly more concerned about the issue of employee engagement than about other potentially topical staff matters according to a straw poll taken at...

Gender Pay Gap Reporting – are you ready?

PostedApril 19, 2017

If you are an employer with 250 employees or more you are likely to be aware that regulations came into force on 6 April 2017 requiring large employers in the...

Gender pay gap for millennials in their 20s falls to 5%

PostedJanuary 5, 2017

The Resolution Foundation has produced analysis which shows the gender pay gap for millennials (ie those reaching young adulthood around the year 2000) has halved in a generation to 5%....

Gender Pay Gap – Where are we now and how did we get here?

PostedOctober 22, 2015

The most recent figures show that in the UK there is 19% difference between the salaries earned by men and women. The government has now announced that it will be...