Gender Pay Reporting - TIF TALK - 28.6.16

Gender Pay Reporting – TIF TALK – 28.6.16

Our next Topical Issues Forum on 28.6.16 will be hosted and presented by Charles Russell Speechlys Partner Nick Hurley at 5 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RD.

Whilst there is a reasonable lead in period to prepare, to conduct a full and proper review and manage any equal pay issues that may arise will take time and a commitment from senior management to the process. In this session you will be expertly guided on what this legislation will require from your organisation to be legally compliant and tips on what practical steps employers should be taking right now.

Our TIF Talks – Topical Issues Forum – are ideal companion Events to our well established formal Dinners – you can read more about them here. Our aim is to pick up something that has very current topicality and/or importance and invite experts with specialist knowledge to bring us up to date and discuss it with us. Our Topical Issues Fora are short, sharp, Immediately Relevant focused seminars, designed NOT to intrude into the working day nor valuable home-time but offer a valuable and concentrated opportunity to catch up on a work issue that has immediate relevance – and alongside like-minded senior professionals.

We gather at 6pm, do the business between 6.30pm and 7.30pm followed by a glass of wine and something to nibble at for those who want to linger on till around 8pm – and maybe a bit longer at your choice.

The Event will be hosted and presented by Charles Russell Speechlys Partner Nick Hurley.

Nick specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. He has broad experience both in the Employment Tribunals and in the Civil Courts and has conducted cases involving discrimination, whistle blowing and TUPE to name but a few. Nick’s non-contentious experience covers a wide spectrum of work ranging from advising on complex employment documentation, giving strategic advice on reorganisation programmes and business transfers. He is a prolific contributor to newspapers and journals, regularly lectures on employment law issues and has contributed chapters to a number of books. Nick is described by Chambers as standing out “for his breadth of practice, including substantial expertise in advising both respondents and claimants. “He cared about the output, instead of just going through the motions.”” In Legal 500 he is described as impressing with his “strategic and commercial approach to complex and highly sensitive issues”.

Nick Hurley writes:-

Mind the gap

“There is no place for any gender pay gap in today’s society – fully capitalising on the talent and experience of women is good for individuals, employers and our economy. That is why this government is taking bold steps to tackle the gender pay gap” – Nicky Morgan MP – Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities

This is the clear ideological goal of the present Government in the latest gender legislation to try and tackle sex discrimination and equal pay. For companies with 250 or more employees, the obligation to publish details of their gender pay gap is coming soon. In April 2017 employers will be required to take a preliminary snapshot of their pay data, which then needs to be analysed and published by April 2018. Under the legislation the pay must be reported on in four key ways: the mean gap, the median gap, the gender bonus gap and salary quartiles. This information needs to be published on the employer’s website and stay there for three years, as well as on a government sponsored website.

As with most recent legislation on this type, the Head of Function has to sign off the Returns – getting these wrong can land you in trouble!