Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019

Public bill · Government · Presented

Requires larger employers to publish information showing any gender pay gap in their organisation, including gaps in hourly pay, bonuses, part-time pay, and the share of men and women receiving bonuses or benefits. Where gaps exist, employers must also explain why they think they happen and what they are doing to narrow them, with the rules phased in for smaller employers over time and public bodies included too. It also gives the State tools to check compliance and enforce the rules, including workplace complaints and court action. That matters because it aims to make pay differences between men and women more visible and push employers to address them.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to require regulations to be made that will require certain employers to publish information relating to the remuneration of their employees by reference to the gender of such employees for the purpose of showing whether there are differences in such remuneration referable to gender and, if there are such differences, the size of such differences and to require such employers to publish statements setting out the reasons for such differences and the measures (if any) taken, or proposed to be taken, by those employers to eliminate or reduce such differences; to make a consequential amendment to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 22 July 2021