Over 10,500 organisations in Britain with 250 or more employees have reported their gender pay gap for 2019, following our successful enforcement action against late reporters.
Following the April deadline, six organisations including Pho Trading Limited and the Academy Transformation Trust failed to respond to our warnings and we opened formal investigations under Section 20 of the Equality Act.
As a result of the investigations, all six organisations have now reported their figures for this year and entered into formal legal agreements with us, committing to report on time for the next five years. If the organisations fail to report on time again, they will face further action and could be taken to court and fined.
In total, we notified 46 private sector and four public sector organisations of our intention to open statutory investigations into their failure to report their gender pay gap data on time. We also publically named the organisations. This included three ‘repeat offenders’ that had failed to report on time two years in a row.
After being informed about the legal action, the majority of the organisations swiftly reported their gender pay gaps or we were satisfied that they are out of scope of the regulations.
Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: