In February 2025, the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland closed a public consultation that began late last year on the proposed introduction of a requirement for Northern Ireland employers to report on their gender pay gap.
The Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 introduced the concept of gender pay gap reporting in Northern Ireland, in addition to ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and the publication of pay gap action plans. However, for much of the three-year period from 2017 until 2020, the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended following a breakdown in power-sharing, meaning the act was not brought into force.
The proposed regulations set out in the department’s consultation document would require organisations with 250 or more employees to report annually on their gender pay gap information. However, this employee threshold is currently under review. It is proposed that in their annual pay reports, employers would need to include the mean and median gender pay gap statistics...
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