Renewed calls for mandatory gender pay gap reporting

Published: Friday, April 13, 2018

As UK companies reported on their gender pay gap at the beginning of April, NWCI renewed calls on the Irish Government to introduce pay transparency legislation.

Eilís Ní Chaithnía, Policy Coordinator said,

“NWCI is calling on the Government to introduce legislation that obliges companies to publish pay information broken down by gender. It is unacceptable that we have an increasing gender pay gap, currently at 14% and it is time for the Government to take serious actions to reduce and close the gap.”

“The Government has committed to bringing forward a range of actions to tackle the gender pay gap, starting with legislation on wage transparency, and the legislative agenda for Spring/Summer 2018 commits to a new Bill, the Gender Pay Gap (Wage Transparency) Bill 2018. We are calling on this Bill to be prioritised as a matter of urgency.”

Read our full press release here.

Read our submission paper No Small Change, on closing the gender pay gap in Ireland here.