The RPG: stretching the pay gap

Today is the deadline for public sector organisations to file their reports under the Gender Pay Gap reporting initiative.  Private sector companies have a week longer to do it, and a lot have left it to the last minute - or perhaps don't intend to do it at all, though Rebecca Hilsenrath, the chief exec of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has been issuing some stern warnings. GPG reporting will, I think, prove to be a big step forward.  It will provide a wealth of information for us to chew over, and since it's pitched at organisational level it should allow real debate of what needs to be done…
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WoW report

I went last week to one day at the 2018 WoW Festival on the South Bank.  WoW is now in its sixth or seventh year.  I’d been once or twice before and always learnt a lot and been invigorated by the sheer energy of the festival, so it was a pleasant surprise to learn that it is now in effect a global franchise, with equivalents happening all over the world – a real tribute to Jude Kelly its originator. The first session I attended had several speakers, all of whom were in their own ways inspirational – a paradoxically tired term, but one that in this case applies accurately.  I’ll pick…
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Pay gaps and sticky doors

I don't know why I've hardly posted in the last few weeks.  It must be something to do with hibernation - after all, there's been more than enough to comment on from the PP point of view, especially with the growing interest in Gender Pay Gap reporting. Actual data on the GPG is a bit slow in coming.  Organisations with more than 250 employees have known since last year that by April 1 they will have to have reported on the GPG on a number of dimensions: mean gender pay gap median gender pay gap mean bonus gender pay gap median bonus gender pay gap proportion of males and females…
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The RPG: stretching the pay gap

Today is the deadline for public sector organisations to file their reports under the Gender Pay Gap reporting initiative.  Private sector companies have a week longer to do it, and a lot have left it to the last minute - or perhaps don't intend to do it at all, though Rebecca Hilsenrath, the chief exec of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has been issuing some stern warnings. GPG reporting will, I think, prove to be a big step forward.  It will provide a wealth of information for us to chew over, and since it's pitched at organisational level it should allow real debate of what needs to be done…
Read More

WoW report

I went last week to one day at the 2018 WoW Festival on the South Bank.  WoW is now in its sixth or seventh year.  I’d been once or twice before and always learnt a lot and been invigorated by the sheer energy of the festival, so it was a pleasant surprise to learn that it is now in effect a global franchise, with equivalents happening all over the world – a real tribute to Jude Kelly its originator. The first session I attended had several speakers, all of whom were in their own ways inspirational – a paradoxically tired term, but one that in this case applies accurately.  I’ll pick…
Read More

Pay gaps and sticky doors

I don't know why I've hardly posted in the last few weeks.  It must be something to do with hibernation - after all, there's been more than enough to comment on from the PP point of view, especially with the growing interest in Gender Pay Gap reporting. Actual data on the GPG is a bit slow in coming.  Organisations with more than 250 employees have known since last year that by April 1 they will have to have reported on the GPG on a number of dimensions: mean gender pay gap median gender pay gap mean bonus gender pay gap median bonus gender pay gap proportion of males and females…
Read More

The RPG: stretching the pay gap

Today is the deadline for public sector organisations to file their reports under the Gender Pay Gap reporting initiative.  Private sector companies have a week longer to do it, and a lot have left it to the last minute - or perhaps don't intend to do it at all, though Rebecca Hilsenrath, the chief exec of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has been issuing some stern warnings. GPG reporting will, I think, prove to be a big step forward.  It will provide a wealth of information for us to chew over, and since it's pitched at organisational level it should allow real debate of what needs to be done…
Read More

WoW report

I went last week to one day at the 2018 WoW Festival on the South Bank.  WoW is now in its sixth or seventh year.  I’d been once or twice before and always learnt a lot and been invigorated by the sheer energy of the festival, so it was a pleasant surprise to learn that it is now in effect a global franchise, with equivalents happening all over the world – a real tribute to Jude Kelly its originator. The first session I attended had several speakers, all of whom were in their own ways inspirational – a paradoxically tired term, but one that in this case applies accurately.  I’ll pick…
Read More

Pay gaps and sticky doors

I don't know why I've hardly posted in the last few weeks.  It must be something to do with hibernation - after all, there's been more than enough to comment on from the PP point of view, especially with the growing interest in Gender Pay Gap reporting. Actual data on the GPG is a bit slow in coming.  Organisations with more than 250 employees have known since last year that by April 1 they will have to have reported on the GPG on a number of dimensions: mean gender pay gap median gender pay gap mean bonus gender pay gap median bonus gender pay gap proportion of males and females…
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