Luck of the draw
September 6, 2015I’m writing this rapidly, at around half nine on the evening of 6th September, because – while idly flicking through twitter – I saw a tweet from @Govt_Women (“the official feed for the UK Government Equalities Office”) reminding people there’s a consultation on the Gender Pay Gap closing in three hours.
Actually according to the consultation document here, it closes at 11.45pm tonight, so you’ve still got a couple of hours, just.
Here’s my brief summary of the condoc:
- the gender pay gap is the gap between *average* salaries for men and *average* salaries for women
- pay discrimination doesn’t wholly explain it (because “pay discrimination… is already unlawful” – bless!)
- causes can include women being concentrated in lower paid occupations, women not being promoted to senior positions, and women losing seniority if they take time off for childcare
The consultation, however, is purely on how the tories achieve their manifesto commitment of requiring employers of more than 250 people to publish the figure. It’s already in the 2010 Equality Act, but it’s a “power to introduce regulations” power. The consultation is on what the regulations should contain.
Responses are requested on an eform which you can find here, and it’ll only take you a few minutes. Let’s try to get a few hundred “just get ON WITH IT”s in the last hour???
tiintax 
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