France would provide free software that would be directly integrated within a company’s payroll system. When the software reveals wage inequality, the company would have to negotiate a “wage catch-up” with trade-union representatives.
Employers in France would have three years to ensure compliance or face a penalty of up to one percent of total payroll in addition to the current one percent penalty already imposed on companies that fail to negotiate on gender equality. Companies would also have to publish their overall score on the unexplained pay gap on their website.
Meanwhile, a new report from the UK Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee recommends employers be required to provide some narrative reporting alongside their gender pay statistics and an action plan setting out how pay gaps are being and will be addressed, including objectives and targets.
