The Government has introduced requirements for organisations to publish and report on their gender pay gap. Employers will have to gather relevant information from their payroll systems and based on that calculate key statistics which will highlight the difference in pay between male and female employees within the organisation.
The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, which came into force on 6 April 2017, apply to employers with more than 250 employees and cover public, private and voluntary sector firms.
Employers must publish their gender pay gap data along with a written statement on their website as well as report the data to the Government through an online database.
The figures must be taken on the ‘snapshot date’ which has been set as 5 April. An organisation must ensure it has filed the information for the previous year by this annual date – so the deadline for the first year reported figures is 4 April 2018.
