Kemi Badenoch pledges to intervene as companies told to collect data based on how workers identify rather than biological sex
All companies with more than 250 staff are required to report their gender pay gap as part of the Government’s aim to end the difference between salaries of both genders.
However, advice published by the Government Equalities Office (GEO), updated in March last year, encourages firms to collect information based on the gender that each employee identifies with.
It means the salaries of biological men could have been recorded as belonging to women, potentially skewing the data.
Kemi Badenoch is understood to have pledged to intervene and is “looking very closely” at what can be done about the guidance to make it clearer that pay gap statistics are meant to record the difference between the biological sexes.
Introductory paragraphs to an article in the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/22/trans-row-gender-pay-gap-figures-kemi-badenoch/
Full article can be read at https://archive.ph/NTJai