Government launches consultation, inviting businesses, workers, and civil society to help shape the next steps on equal pay reform.
Businesses, public bodies, trade unions, and civil society organisations across Great Britain are being invited to help shape the government’s next steps on equal pay reform.
This comes as today’s release of the pay discrimination-related findings from the call for evidence on equality law, along with wider research, demonstrates that the existing law on pay equality has become excessively complex, costly, and protracted.
With thousands of claims stuck in the system, the findings illustrate that despite current legal protections, pay discrimination persists for ethnic minority and disabled people, women and outsourced workers.
Neither workers or employers currently benefit from this, as the findings show the current equal pay framework has created court and tribunal proceedings that are too complicated, expensive, and slow, often taking decades to resolve.
In response, the government has today launched a consultation to invite views from key stakeholders on how best to fix the equal pay system, based on the government’s commitment to strengthen equal pay provisions and eliminate pay discrimination.
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