Firms focus on gender pay gaps as staff compare annual reports

As gender pay gap reporting enters year two, staff want to know what employers have done to address last year's pay gaps 

Gender pay equality: Employers are aware that staff are monitoring gender pay equality progress, comparing year two's gender pay gap report with last year's performance. Picture: iStock

Employers have become keenly aware of their need to review gender pay gaps, now that the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive has been finalised.

One of the key changes with the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive is that employers will be required to calculate and report gender pay gaps broken down by “categories of workers” who perform the same work or work of equal value.