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Gender Pay Gap Report

Meeting: 09/02/2021 - Executive (Item 19)

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To consider the report of the Director Corporate Services.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Agreed:

 

RECOMMENDED that Council approve:-

 

(1)        annual reviews to track the relationship between both female and male earnings; and

 

(2)        the publication of the Gender Pay Gap Report and its findings on the Exeter City Council website and on the centrally held database on gov.uk.

 

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive received the report on the Gender Pay Gap which was a statutory requirement of the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017, for the local authorities employing 250 or more employees. The report detailed a snap shot taken from 31 March 2020 and presented a detailed list of hourly pay rates between male and female staff.

 

It was highlighted that:-

 

·         the average pay of females across the Council was higher than that of males;

·         there were over three times more males in the lower quartile of earnings than females; and

·         the report also covered agency staff.

 

RECOMMENDED that Council approve:-

 

(1)        annual reviews to track the relationship between both female and male earnings; and

 

(2)        the publication of the Gender Pay Gap Report and its findings on the Exeter City Council website and on the centrally held database on gov.uk.