NEWS12 April 2019
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NEWS12 April 2019
UK – The UK’s system of gender pay gap reporting is statistically flawed in practice, according to the Royal Statistical Society.
The current approach is confusing for employers and open to companies ‘gaming’ the system, the industry body has said, as it outlines several recommendations to improve the process.
Employers in Britain with more than 250 staff have been required to publish their gender pay gap data since April 2017.
The Royal Statistical Society’s recommendations for change include the introduction of free online ‘gender pay calculators’ with built-in ‘sanity checks’, that would ensure accuracy and automatically question employers attempting to make implausible entries.
Gender pay data should also be presented in pounds and pence only, rather than including percentages as well, ‘to make the system simpler, more intuitive and less confusing,’ the society said.
The body also proposes:
Professor Jen Rogers, vice-president for external affairs, Royal Statistical Society, said: “We warmly welcomed the government’s original decision to introduce gender pay gap reporting. We also recognise the important improvements that it has since made. But we would urge it to go further and faster.”
Rogers added that heeding the recommendations would “turn a system that’s great in principle into one that’s equally impressive in practice”.
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