who are aged 30 years or over, as those in ethnic minority seem to earn less than those of white ethnicities at this point. The pay gap of 16% for employees of Pakistani descent aged over 30 reduced to 2% in those aged between 16 and 29. Chinese-ethnicity employees below the age of 30 commanded 46% more than the average white employee, in comparison with 19% more for employees aged over 30.
The ONS confirmed that, when factors including age, sex, marital status, children, qualifications, country of birth and location of employees are considered, the gap appears to narrow for many ethnic groups.
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Executive Pay
Gender Pay Gap
New bill introduced to Parliament which could provide women with the right to know their male coleagues’ salaries 23 October 2020 The Equal Pay Information and Claims Bill 2020 was introduced to the House of Commons by Labour MP, Stella Creasy, on 20 October 2020, and would grant employees the right of knowing what their colleagues are paid. It would also make it mandatory for companies with 100 or more employees to report both their gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Currently, only businesses with at least 250 employees are legally required to report on their gender pay gap, and there are no rules surrounding ethnicity pay gap reporting at present, although a consultation on the subject was published, but no response provided as yet. At present, women do have the right to enquire about a colleague’s pay, but employers are under no obligation to provide these details. If women believe that they are not being paid fairly, their only option is to take employers to tribunal to force a disclosure.
Presenting the bill to MPs, Creasy said:
"Pay discrimination becomes so prevalent because it is hard to get pay transparency. Unless a woman knows that a man who is doing equal work to her is being paid more, she cannot know if she is being paid equally.
For nearly 200 years, women have been asking for parity and, with the pandemic bearing down on us, we cannot afford to wait any longer for action.”
Experts appear to welcome the proposed changes and believe that they could help to start to fix the gender pay gap.
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Furlough and gender pay gap reporting: useful guidance 20 November 2020
Although gender pay gap reporting deadlines were suspended for the 2019-20 reporting year, due to the outbreak of coronavirus, there has been no indication that the deadlines will also be suspended for the 2020-21 reporting year. Employers who are required to submit gender pay gap data may be interested in an update on how furlough will impact the calculations that are involved in the reporting process.
The Government Equalities Office has confirmed as follows.
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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