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Article

25 Aug 2015

Author:
Jennifer Rankin, Guardian (UK)

UK: Union calls for equal pay audits after survey reveals female managers earn 22% less than male counterparts

"Female bosses are working for free as gender pay gap persists", 25 Aug 2015

Female managers earn 22% less than their male counterparts and “work for free” for nearly two hours a day, research shows. According to a survey of more than 72,000 managers in the UK, the difference in pay equates to one hour and 40 minutes of unpaid labour a day by women, or 57 working days a year....Next year the government will introduce new rules forcing companies with more than 250 workers to disclose the pay gap in their workplaces, despite fierce resistance from employers...But Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, the UK’s trade union body, said the government needed to do more. “The government’s move to require companies to publish pay gap information is positive, but it doesn’t go far enough,” she said. “We need pay transparency and equal pay audits, and a requirement on companies to act on the data to close the gap. “The UK will never really address the problem of unequal pay until there are systems in place to expose and tackle the huge gap between what men and women doing similar jobs in the same workplaces are paid.”