PAY DISCRIMINATION
How to conduct equal pay reviews
Only an equal pay review can ensure that your organisation's reward systems are free of sex bias and are legally compliant. E-reward.co.uk has published detailed guidelines on how to conduct equal pay reviews, complete with checklists to help you pinpoint the causes of inequality.
Ignoring pay discrimination in reward systems is bad for business. Pay systems that short-change women employees risk costly equal pay claims. In 2001, there were nearly 9,000 employment tribunal claims relating to equal pay and the average award was over £19,000.
A new report by e-reward.co.uk helps you understand equal pay law and looks at two legal developments that could mean an employers' failure to carry out an equal pay review will increase the risk of successful equal pay complaints. It outlines a systematic process by which you can analyse your employees' pay and take remedial action to remove pay gaps between men and women.
Lack of awareness amongst employers
Sadly, organisations that have carried out an equal pay review are few and far between. All too many are uneasy - some deeply so - about what might emerge from a detailed investigation of their pay policies and practices, while others do not believe they have a pay problem.
As Gary Bowker, a senior employment law consultant at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, has said: "If you ask a group of employers if they have an equal pay problem, the chances are that the vast majority will say that they do not. Ask them whether they have carried out an equal pay review and most will say no. So how do they know they are legally compliant? They don’t."
| What you will find in this e-reward.co.uk report |
| Spread across 58 pages (17,000 words) this in-depth report contains the following chapters: |
| Chapter 1: Introduction |
| The context |
| Chapter 2: Pressures for change |
| Revised code of practice |
| Chapter 3: Equal pay - the legal framework |
| By Gary Bowker, Mercer Human Resource Consulting |
| Chapter 4: e-reward.co.uk guidelines on how to conduct equal pay reviews |
| Focus of the review |
| Chapter 5: e-reward.co.uk checklists for reviewing pay systems |
| Diagnostic review |
| Appendices |
| How the e-review toolkit supports the equal pay review process |
| Resources |
| Official guidance - what's available? |
Want to know more?
Title: "How to conduct equal pay reviews", E-research, issue no. 8, February 2003, published by e-reward.co.uk.
Price: The report is available from e-reward.co.uk at £50 + VAT. Or you can receive it as part of an annual subscription to E-research and we will send you 11 issues of our monthly report for £200 + VAT.
Availability: Click on "Research Reports" on the right-hand navigation panel of the e-reward.co.uk web site and complete the simple online subscription form.
For more details, email: paul@e-reward.co.uk