My second briefing on the #genderpaygap for @iealondon is out today. Download for free here: iea.org.uk/publications/t…
Summary: The government’s new pay gap reporting measures fail to provide any meaningful insight into equal or fair pay for men and women in the workplace.
Summary: The government’s new pay gap reporting measures fail to provide any meaningful insight into equal or fair pay for men and women in the workplace.
Not only are the measurements useless; they are also problematic. Incentives created include hiring fewer women into junior or lower paid roles – regardless of their qualifications – to achieve the closest calculation a company can get to a 0% #paygap. iea.org.uk/publications/t…
On the one semi-informative #paygap measurement (proportion of men and women getting a bonus payment), our calculation of FTSE 100 companies to report so far shows 36 companies gave bonuses to a higher percentage of their female staff, v 31 for male staff. iea.org.uk/publications/t…
But most of the #paygap measurements fail to tell us anything meaningful about women and men in comparable work. And they certainly fail to highlight any form of unequal pay or discrimination. All-in-all, terrible public policy. iea.org.uk/publications/t…
