Schools will soon have to report on their gender pay gaps, and those with high differences could face being named and shamed. Expert David Hession explains

The government is on a path to introduce mandatory gender pay gap reporting for organisations with 250 or more employees. Although the regulations are still in draft form, it appears certain that the requirement to publish any difference in pay between men and women will have an impact on the vast majority of educational establishments.

The new regulations will apply to rates of pay as they exist on April 30, 2017, and the first set of data must be available for inspection by April 2018 at the latest. At that point, organisations with significant gender pay gaps could attract negative publicity.

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