With the recent high profile resignation of female BBC reporter Carrie Gracie the introduction of gender pay gap reporting highlights the tender trap that many organisations can find themselves in.\u00a0 The Equalities Commission is now going to look into Ms Gracie’s claims that two international reporters doing the same job as her were paid more than 50% than her.<\/p>\n
Gender pay gap reporting introduced by the government in\u00a0 April 2017 requires that organisations who employ more than 250 staff are required to publish the pay gaps between men and women by April 2018 on an ongoing basis.\u00a0 The BBC have argued that they undertook an audit and considered there wasn’t a problem.\u00a0 However at least 150 women employed by the BBC don’t agree and are silently backing Miss Gracie’s very public outcry.\u00a0 She is so incensed that she has resigned.\u00a0 An inability of an organisation to produce the figures will have the public speculating as to the reasons why.\u00a0 Those who do publish damning figures may face damage to reputation and an inability to recruit.\u00a0 Pay is such an emotive issue and everyone wants to know that they receive a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.\u00a0 If women do the same job as men or the job is of equal value they should be paid the same.\u00a0 A job evaluation process could highlight the gaps which will then need plugging.<\/p>\n