Conservatives would scrap plans for mandatory pay audits

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Conservatives would scrap plans for mandatory pay audits

The Conservative Party is likely to scrap government plans for mandatory gender pay audits, according to Personnel Today magazine.

The Equality Bill, currently in the committee stage of the House of Commons, includes a clause enabling the government to enforce mandatory gender pay audits on employers from 2013 if organisations do not voluntarily disclose their pay gaps before then. But Theresa May, shadow minister for women and the shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, told Personnel Today that she would prefer to see mandatory reporting only for those employers found guilty at a tribunal of gender discrimination.

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Title: “Conservatives to scrap mandatory gender pay audits called for in Equality Bill”, by Kat Baker, Personnel Today, 6 October 2009.

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