Gender Pay Gap Reporting Update - A Bitesized Guide to Tackling the Tricky Issues

Introduction

As employers navigate another year of workforce reporting, the landscape continues to evolve.

This short webinar will provide the latest guidance on Gender Pay Gap Reporting, and how to tackle any problem areas. It will also look ahead to potential ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Legal latest - what’s changed and what’s going to change?
• Menopause
• Agency workers
• Report content
• What’s next? A look at ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
• Overview of government plans and key implications
• A manifesto commitment but timeline unknown
• Tricky issues with both
• Early steps you can take now
• Common errors and tackling the tricky issues
• Employee inclusion/exclusion
• How much data do you need?
• Pay calculations: snapshot date, pay period, allowances, overtime
• Salary sacrifice. Pre or post sacrifice amount?
• Bonus pay pitfalls: pro-rating, leavers, timing
• Zero hours workers. What hours to use?
• Unusual working arrangements: e.g. someone with multiple roles
• What do you do when data is bad?
• Narrative and comms: top tips for your report
• What does a ‘good’ report look like?
• Explaining the results: how to explain numbers clearly and credibly
• Hostages to fortune: overpromising on action and oversharing of data
• Avoiding bland insincere boilerplate ‘wash’ and showing actual considered insight into structural drivers of gaps
• Practical tips for making life easier
• Aligning payroll, HR, and legal
• Simple process improvements for next year

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 18th March 2026

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