Issue - meetings
Gender Pay Gap Report
Meeting: 09/02/2021 - Executive (Item 19)
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.