UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting

We wrote about the Draft Gender Pay Gap Regulations in the April 2016 edition of A Month in UK Employment Law. In December 2016, the UK Government published a revised version of these Regulations which are expected to come into force on 6 April 2017.

As a reminder, the Regulations require private sector employers in the UK with at least 250 employees to publish certain information about the differences in pay between men and women. It is anticipated that 7,960 employers and around 11 million employees will be affected (34% of the total UK workforce).

Broadly, the data that will now need to be published consists of:

• the difference between the mean and median hourly rate of pay for men and women;