Hitting the headlines recently was equality’s old arch-enemy: the gender pay gap. A lasting legacy of a society that more often than not paid a man more money for the same job as a woman. Still today, 45 years after the Equal Pay Act was introduced, women are paid on average 80p for every £1 that men earn. How unfair is that?! “Very”, we hear you say. Hence why the government has announced its own plan of action this week to end the gender pay gap within a generation.
The gender pay gap
20 July 2015
The latest blog from the HR Dept discusses the gender pay gap, and the government’s front-page promise to eradicate it for the next working generation.