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Pay Gaps #22 – My 7 + 5 recommendations for amending UK pay gap legislation

June 30, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

When gender pay gap reporting was introduced by the government for the 2017 snapshot date for all employers with a headcount of 250 or more, it was made clear they would evaluate how the legislation had worked after 5 years.  We are now in the 5th year of pay gap reporting and I would like to submit to the government 7 recommendations to improve the way employers’ data is reported and 5 recommendations to improve the data used in the calculations and to reduce various distortions.

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Filed Under: Diversity, Featured blog Tagged With: data quality, Equality Act 2010, Ethnicity Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, Gender Swap Number, GEO, GPG, ONS, Pay Fingerprint, Pay Ratio, Recommendations

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