9 November, 2018
The gender pay gap is closing – but the UK is behind
There has been progress—of a sort—in gender pay. At the executive end of the spectrum, the pay gap has squeezed in the UK to 12.5%, compared with 21.5% in Leathwaite’s previous Pay Index study. ...
3 August, 2018
MPs call for extension of gender pay gap reporting
The UK should extend the requirement for gender pay gap reporting to a broader range of companies, according to a report from an influential committee of MPs. Members of the House of Commons busine...
7 June, 2018
Female non-executive directors ‘expect less pay’ than males
Female non-executives are asking for much lower pay than their male counterparts, according to a new study. Research into the pay patterns of 6,000 senior operational staff and board members by Nor...
26 March, 2018
Companies warned of court action over gender pay gap reporting
Companies have been warned that they will face court action and potentially unlimited fines if they fail to comply with gender pay gap reporting requirements. The warning comes from the UK's Equali...
16 March, 2018
HSBC reveals gender pay gap of 60% but pledges to improve diversity
HSBC, one of the UK's most prominent financial institutions, has published an average gender pay gap of 60%. The bank's gender bonus gap is 84%. The bank admitted that it had fewer women in senior ...
13 March, 2018
Hiscox reports an average gender pay gap of 31%
Hiscox, the FTSE 250 insurance company, has reported a gender pay gap of 26.2% on a median basis, and a 31.1% mean figure. The company's bonus pay gaps were, however, bigger: 49.5% median and 71.1%...
12 March, 2018
Top paid jobs dominated by men fourfold, HMRC reveals
Figures released by the UK government reveal that there are almost four times as many men on top pay as there are women. According to statistics released by HM Revenue & Customs, 618,000 men re...
6 March, 2018
Remuneration issues under scrutiny after gender pay gap reports
One in three organisations that have gone through the process of writing gender pay gap reports are also looking to confront pay imbalances, a survey has found. The poll found that 32% of companies...
5 March, 2018
Gender pay gap reports published by only a fraction of companies
With a month to go before the deadline, only a fraction of the companies expected to produce gender pay gap reports have so far done so. The government said that around 9,000 organisations were exp...
23 February, 2018
