As a result, you will be able to join the campaign to mark the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, highlight the prevalence of gender pay inequality, and call on those in power to take action. [...] Overall, the changes in income and employment as a result of the crisis are expected to result in an increase to the mean gender pay gap of £62 a month.14 While the Government has made the decision to suspend companies’ gender pay reporting requirements for 2020 in light of the COVID-19 crisis,15 this in and of itself may have implications for how employers value closing the gender pay gap. [...] The budget was ruled unlawful by the courts, with the judges deciding that the councillors had allowed themselves to be guided ‘by some eccentric principles of socialistic philanthropy, or by a feminist ambition to secure the equality of the sexes in the matter of wages in the world of labour’.17 Thirty councillors were jailed for contempt of court when they refused to revise it.18 1955: After mas. [...] The gender pay gap The gender pay gap is a calculation of the difference between the average hourly pay of the average man and of the average woman. [...] To alert a new audience to the injustice of pay inequality in the UK and encourage more women to take up the issue of equal pay in their workplace and in their unions.
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