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It’s April 2029 and the government is trumpeting the fact that no employer in the UK has a gender pay gap or ethnicity pay gap. All employers say that their median woman’s hourly pay is the same as the median man’s hourly pay and their median white employee’s hourly pay is the same as their median non-white employee’s hourly pay. Would you be joining in the celebrations?
[Read more…] about Pay Gaps #21 – No employer has a gender & ethnicity pay gap! Let’s celebrate!
This article was last updated using data submitted as of 6th April 2021.
In February 2021, the EHRC confirmed that all employers with a headcount of 250 employees or more would have to submit their gender pay gaps based on the 2020 snapshot date. Due to the lateness of this confirmation, they also stated that no enforcement action would be taken prior to the end of September 2021. As result, fewer employers than expected have reported 2020 data so far so I have used methods of imputation to estimate that the median gender pay gap among these employers narrowed by between 0.3 & 0,7 pence in the pound in 2020. As more data is submitted between now and September, I will update this estimate.
[Read more…] about Pay Gap Trends #4 – Did the UK gender pay gap narrow in 2020?
This post was updated on 6th April 2021 with the latest data
The government requires all organisations employing 250 or more employees to submit gender pay gap data. All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website. I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet tool to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.
[Read more…] about Pay Gap Data #4 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2020?
The meteorological year of 2021 has been extremely boring so far and April was no different. A bit stormier than usual, enough to cause a leak in my block of flats, but otherwise unremarkable.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #50 – March 2021
The 2021 Six Nations (Men’s) ended with Wales winning the title after Scotland beat France in Paris to snuff out France’s attempt to win the title for the first time since 2010. Wales let a Grand Slam slip after conceding a try in injury time and as an England fan who was there at Wembley in 1999 I know exactly how the Welsh feel!
[Read more…] about 6 Nations History #1 – The men’s story so far in 2021
Keir Starmer has to match what Clement Attlee did in 1945 and beat what Tony Blair did in 1997 if he wants to form a Labour government at the next election. To arrive at Downing Street 
by the end of 2024, Starmer must get his party to board an InterCity 125 train and spend the next 3 years following the tracks I lay out in this article. As I will show, whichever track they take has to go through 125 English Conservative seats, most of which are in between cities. Hence InterCity 125 becomes the easy to remember name of Labour’s list of target seats.
[Read more…] about UK General Elections #6 – Keir Starmer’s train to Downing Street
I call upon Parliament to abolish the Gender Pay Gap by requiring employers to report their Gender Swap Number instead. When presented alongside an employer’s Gender Pay Fingerprint, the Gender Swap Number tells everyone how much work the employer needs to do to eliminate their gender pay gap and allows for a fairer comparison between employers.
[Read more…] about Pay Gaps #20 – Abolish the Gender Pay Gap!
An unfortunate side effect of COVID19 has been ugly political debates over the best way to tackle the pandemic. Often politicians will claim because country X does this, the UK should be doing it as well. I decided it was time to do a proper comparison of the UK with other countries to see what extent the UK is an outlier and whether there are some countries we should be using as templates.
[Read more…] about COVID19 Cases #2 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?
Winter 2021 was wetter than usual in the UK but otherwise unremarkable.
The UK weather in February 2021 started cold and ended up warm but in the end, everything averaged out into an extremely boring month statistically.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #49 – February 2021
