As we reach the seventh year in which UK firms are legally required to publish their gender pay gap figures, IDR considers how the reporting regulations could change under a new administration.
In their own terms at least, the gender pay gap reporting regulations can probably be considered a success. According to the gender pay gap service, 10,505 organisations published headline gender pay gap statistics in 2021/22. This is very close to all of those that were eligible (in the main, organisations with at least 250 employees). According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which is responsible for enforcement of the regulations, only 28 eligible organisations failed to report their gender pay gaps in 2022.
