This year, Organisations with 50 Employees or more are required to publish a gender pay gap report. This brings a much broader range of SME Organisations into scope for the first time this year.

The legislation requires Organisations to select a ‘snapshot’ date in the month of June. The gender pay gap report will be based on Employee pay data for the 12-month period that precedes the June snapshot date.

The Government has also recently confirmed that Organisations will have to publish their gender pay gap reports in November this year, one month earlier than previously. Early preparation is therefore vital.

Organisations reporting for the first time this year must understand the compliance burden involved, what data is required, the stakeholders who will need to participate and what information to publish in the report itself.