Company league tables to reveal male-female pay gap

GENDER PAY GAP

Company league tables to reveal male-female pay gap

Companies could be "named and shamed" in league tables revealing wage inequalities between male and female employees under government plans to tackle the gender pay gap, according to a report in today’s Guardian newspaper.

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The report suggests that the government's equalities office is drawing up an amendment to the equality bill that would force companies to publish figures in annual accounts showing the number of men and women in particular pay bands. The bill is due to be published early this year.

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Title: “Company league tables to reveal male-female pay gap”, Guardian, 6 January 2009.

Availability: Read the Guardian report online at www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jan/06/equality-bill-pay.