Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Transparency
The September 2018 edition of Employment Flash
summarized the requirements of the U.K. Equality Act 2010
Regulations 2017, which went into effect on April 6, 2017. The
regulations introduced mandatory gender pay gap reporting by large
private and voluntary sector employers to identify the difference
between the average pay of men and women in the U.K., with the goal
of narrowing that gap.
The regulations should be considered in the context of the
European Commission's focus on combating the gender pay gap
within the European Union and ensuring that existing legal rules
governing the principle of equal pay between men and women are
enforced. This equal pay principle, which compares the pay of men
and women in equivalent roles, has been codified in European law
(and applied across the EU) since at least 1975.
