Workers’ rights campaigners say measure will help young people and women in particular achieve more equal payBusiness live – latest updatesEmployers will be forced to publish salaries on job adverts, Andy Burnham has announced,...
Read MoreUnison refuses to ballot members on offer that would see thousands of council employees worse offThousands of Glasgow council workers face being sacked and reappointed under less favourable terms in one of the UK’s biggest ever...
Read MoreMore than 30 bills expected as Labour government sets out its legislative agenda for this session of parliamentKeir Starmer’s government will set out its legislative agenda for this session of parliament in the king’s speech on...
Read MoreExclusive: Radical changes in a draft race equality act would give same protections as women now receiveAnalysis: Labour’s proposals unlikely to be enough to end race disparitiesA Labour government would extend the full right to...
Read MoreThousands of women who have been underpaid by up to £11,000 a year set to launch claim, GMB union saysSheffield city council is to become the latest local authority to face a mass equal pay claim from women who have been...
Read MoreGMB union is supporting 3,000 claims in Birmingham – and is gathering evidence from 20 other councilsCouncils in the UK are facing compensation bills running into billions of pounds over equal pay claims, campaigners have...
Read More‘Equal pay generation’ of female workers abandoned by Tories, says Anneliese Dodds, who commissioned researchThe so-called equal pay generation of female workers born near the passing of the 1970 Equal Pay Act are...
Read MoreExclusive: Ex-TUC chief Frances O’Grady to lead review amid concerns it is taking too long to eliminate gapUK politics live – latest news updatesLabour is launching a review of the gender pay gap to help the party...
Read MoreNew research reveals a 15% pay gap that widens dramatically after women have childrenWomen “work for free for nearly two months” a year, according to fresh analysis which reveals a 15% gender pay gap that widens...
Read MoreExclusive: women’s median hourly rate on average 10.2% less than men’s, compared with 9.3% in 2018Reminded of the gap: why men still get paid more in UK public sectorThe gender pay gap reported to the government by...
Read MoreAsking about earnings discriminates against women and other groups, says Fawcett Society Campaigners have urged employers to stop asking job applicants for salary history, saying it discriminates against women, people of colour,...
Read MoreCarrie Gracie says she is baffled by watchdog decision to clear corporation of wrongdoingCarrie Gracie has described an investigation into pay discrimination at the BBC as a “whitewash”, after it cleared the...
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