The Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019 (the
"Bill") has now completed Dáil
Éireann, First Stage and was published online in March
2019.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2019/30/
The stated aim of the Bill is to provide transparency on the
gender pay gap and it is likely that businesses that can report a
low or non-existent pay gap will be at an advantage in recruiting
future employees. Mandatory reporting is likely to encourage
employers to take measures to address this issue before the
reporting requirements before the Bill are in force.
The Bill provides for the Minister for Justice and Equality (the
"Minister") to make
regulations requiring employers to publish information relating to
the remuneration of their employees to show whether there are
differences in such remuneration referable to gender and, if so,
the size of such differences.
