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Thousands of organisations opt out of gender pay gap reporting Published: 07 Apr 2021 The number of employers publishing their gender pay gap data has fallen in its thousands since 2018 according to new analysis from the CIPD. For 2020, just 2,440 businesses reported their data, compared with 6,150 in 2019 and 10,833 in 2018. CIPD senior reward and performance adviser Charles Cotton said the sharp drop is cause for concern and raises questions ab...

Published: To progress on equality, we need more pay transparency. When The Equality Trust looked at women’s remuneration in FTSE 100 companies and their subsidiaries in 2019 we found pay gaps that were over 50% and bonus gaps at over 80%. There were huge differences within the same sector and even within the same group of holdings. In 2020, we found there were still large gender pay gaps in organisations such as Rush Hair (69.2%), Yours Clothing (59% and ...

Gender pay gap reporting extension could give firms wrong message Published: 24 Feb 2021 The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be giving UK firms a six-month grace period if they do not report their gender pay gap data by 30 March (public sector) or 4 April (private) 2021. The reporting suspension was introduced in March 2020 to alleviate the administrative burden on businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The EHRC will now not...

Hold yourselves accountable for tackling discrimination, open letter urges charities More than two dozen leaders from minoritised communities have signed the letter, which has been sent to the NCVO and Acevo by Rebecca Cooney Free email bulletins

Johnson’s brief bounce Andrew Rawnsley’s article demonstrates the short-term nature of contemporary politics (“The bad taste question about Covid that everyone in Westminster is asking”, Comment). What matters to the denizens of Westminster is less good governance than the “bluebird of spring” that will transform their poll ratings. There is no doubt that a successful vaccination programme will do this. People grateful for the vaccine will forget the policy mishaps that led up to th...

Deprived areas see very low take-up of coronavirus testing – and no wonder, say campaigners, when taking time off work can have dire consequences

Finance BOSSES at the UKs top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Reading will all year, estimates show. Charity the Equality Trust said the salary gap between bosses and their employees is fuelling a "damagingly high" level of inequality across the UK. The median annual pay of FTSE 100 CEOs in 2019 was £3.6 million (around £941 per hour of their 12-hour days), according to the High Pay Centre. Assuming they start work at 8am, they had already e...

Bosses at the UKs top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Swindon will all year, estimates show. The Equality Trust charity said the salary gap between bosses and their employees is fuelling a "damagingly high" level of inequality across the UK. The median annual pay of FTSE 100 CEOs in 2019 was £3.6 million, which is around £941 per hour of their 12-hour days, according to the High Pay Centre. Assuming they start work at 8am, they had already e...

BOSSES at the UKs top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will earn all…