The Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 and its recently released regulations are now in effect, introducing significant obligations for covered employers to calculate and publish detailed comparative pay information between female and male workers annually starting this year, and to analyze and address any identified pay gaps.
For further details and analysis, see our detailed article: Gender pay gap reporting has arrived in Ireland
The effort and complexity that will be involved in planning, gathering and communicating the required information should not be underestimated, nor should the visibility on the published results and action steps by current and potential employees, the media, customers and investors. Affected employers are advised to begin work, if they haven’t already, on the technical data preparation as well as on understanding and addressing the underlying reasons for any gender pay gaps in their organizations.