Equal Pay - Where Are We Now & Where Are We Headed?

Introduction

The Labour Government’s Plan to Make Work Pay outlined the measures it intends to introduce to close the gender pay gap.

The new Employment Rights Act 2025 will require employers with more than 250 employees to develop and publish equality action plans, showing the steps they are taking to address the gender pay gap and support employees going through menopause. They are also required to publish gender pay gap information about service providers they contract with for outsourced services.

There are also future plans to:

• Allow equal pay comparison between outsourced workers and in-house employees
• Extend the equal pay regime to cover ethnicity and disability pay discrimination claims
• Introduce mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting for employers with 250+ employees, in the forthcoming Equality (Race and Disability) Bill
• Strengthen Equality Impact Assessments for public sector bodies
• Establish an Equal Pay Regulatory Enforcement Unit
• Improve pay transparency

Are you on top of the current equal pay law and aware of the changes around the corner?

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• The principle of equal pay and 'equal work’
• The equality clauses implied by the Equality Act 2010
• Appropriate comparators
• The employer’s ‘material factor’ defence
• Equal pay and maternity
• Case studies and examples, as well as taking a look at the changes planned for equal pay in the near future

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.