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Equal pay: job grading

Last updated: 03 Sep 2020

This page discusses job grading structures and how they can help you to ensure equal pay within your organisation.

Equal pay: More action you can take

Last updated: 08 Sep 2020

This page provides guidance to help you implement a fair and transparent pay system to achieve and maintain equal pay.

Equal pay review step 1: determine whether employees are doing equal work

Last updated: 26 Aug 2020

This guidance will support your equal pay review to help you understand whether your male and female employees are doing equal work.

Equal pay review step 2: compare pay between men and women doing equal work

Last updated: 26 Aug 2020

This page provides guidance to help you through your equal pay review. It will help you to compare the pay of men and women doing equal work to identify any discrepancies that cannot be justified.

Equal pay review step 3: identify any action that needs to be taken

Last updated: 26 Aug 2020

This page discusses the actions you may need to take if you have found issues with equal pay in your organisation to eliminate any pay differences between men and women.

Equal pay audit step 1: deciding the scope

Last updated: 27 Aug 2020

This page provides information that will help you to decide the scope of your equal pay audit.

Equal pay audit step 2: determining where men and women are doing ‘equal work’

Last updated: 19 Feb 2019

This page provides advice to help you determine where men and women are doing equal work to help you ensure equal pay.

Equal pay audit step 3: collecting pay data

Last updated: 03 Sep 2020

This page provides advice to help you compare pay information to identify any pay gaps and ensure equal pay.

Equal pay audit step 4: causes of gender pay differences

Last updated: 03 Sep 2020

This page will help you to identify which aspects of your pay system are causing pay gaps to help you ensure equal pay.

Equal pay audit step 5: developing an action plan

Last updated: 03 Sep 2020

This page provides guidance to help you develop an action plan to tackle any pay gaps for which there was no satisfactory explanation and justification to ensure equal pay.

Equality and Human Rights Exchange

Last updated: 15 Oct 2018

Our Equality and Human Rights Exchange Network is a forum dedicated to the exchange of ideas and advice for employers and service providers.

What is the difference between the gender pay gap and equal pay?

Last updated: 01 Jun 2021

Whilst both equal pay and the gender gap deal with the disparity of pay women receive in the workplace, they are two different issues.

Briefing paper 2: Gender pay gap

First Published: 23 Apr 2011

This briefing paper seeks to present within a single, short, document the best available, and publicly accessible, recent statistical data in the United Kingdom (UK) relating to gender pay gaps.

Briefing paper 6: gender pay gap, 2012

First Published: 09 Jun 2014

This briefing paper seeks to present within a single, short, document the best available, and publicly accessible, recent statistical data in the United Kingdom (UK) relating to gender pay gaps.

Gender neutral job evaluation schemes an introduction to the law

First Published: 01 Mar 2014

This publication provides an introduction to the key principles of the law and outlines cases that illustrate the standards job evaluation schemes must meet to provide an employer with a defence to an equal pay claim.

Gender-neutral job evaluation schemes: an introduction guide

First Published: 01 Mar 2014

This publication provides summary guidance on gender-neutral job evaluation schemes and their use as a defence against equal pay claims.

Commission comments on latest gender pay gap report

Published: 23 Aug 2016

Prepare your daughter for working life. Give her less pocket money than your son.

Published: 23 Aug 2016

Helen Miller, Policy Manager for Equality and Human Rights Commission projects in Scotland, talks about the latest reports on the gender pay gap.

Forty years too long to tackle gender pay gap

Published: 10 Nov 2016

Commission CEO Rebecca Hilsenrath comments on Equal Pay Day, the date women effectively stop earning relative to men.

Small steps rather than big leaps forward for gender equality

Published: 30 Nov 2016

Rebecca Hilsenrath blogs about gender equality and equal pay.