While the U.K. has given companies with at least 250 staff an extra six months to publish their gender pay gap data (c.f. article No. 12377), only one out of four met the initial 04 April deadline. HR experts are worried about this lack of momentum and especially since the situation for females at work has deteriorated alongside the Covid-19 crisis.
On 04 April and in line with their normal legal requirements, approximately 2,500 companies posted their 2020 gender pay gap data on the specifically dedicated UK government website. This is some 77% less compared with the 2018 gender pay gap data that was published at the same time two years ago, when some 10,833 large companies participated, and when their data indicated 78% of companies were paying females less than males (c.f.
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