Workers should be able to know colleagues' salaries, rights body says
Summary
The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has proposed requiring employers to share information about colleagues’ pay when workers request it. It also wants employers barred from asking job applicants about their current or previous salary, saying both changes could help reduce pay discrimination.Key Facts
- Employers in the UK do not currently have to answer employees’ requests for information about colleagues’ pay.
- The EHRC wants employers to provide requested information within a set timeframe.
- The proposed information could include basic pay, hours worked, bonuses, overtime, shift premiums and performance-related pay.
- UK employers can currently ask job applicants about their current salary, but applicants do not have to answer.
- EHRC chief executive John Kirkpatrick said salary-history questions can carry past disadvantage or discrimination into future salaries.
- The EHRC has previously called for employers to publish salary details in job adverts.
- The Fawcett Society has said salary-history questions may perpetuate pay differences linked to gender, race and disability.
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