CIPD: reports won’t close gender pay gap

Forcing employers to report on the gender pay gap in their workforces is not the answer to ingrained inequality, the CIPD said in response to the new equalities bill.The bill, unveiled last week by Harriet Harman, minister for equality, means that all private firms with more than 250 staff, and local authorities with more than 150, will have to report on the differences in pay between men and women. Compulsory reporting will not begin until 2013 but the government hopes that the measure will compel firms to be more open about pay in the meantime.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School