Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Human Resources and Cultural Change 

The gender pay gap is the difference between the average (mean or median) earnings of men and women across a workforce.  Whilst reporting the council’s gender equality pay gap is a statutory requirement, reporting of the ethnicity pay gap is currently voluntary, and a matter of best practice.

Council is RECOMMENDED to:

a) Note and approve the council’s statutory gender equality pay gap report of 2024 for onward submission to the Gender Pay Gap Service, and making it available to the council’s employees, and on the council's website by 30 March 2025.

b) Note the council’s voluntary ethnicity pay gap report of 2024.

Recommendations approved.

Council had before it a report on the Council’s Gender Pay Gap which is a statutory requirement as well as a report on the Ethnicity Pay Gap which is currently voluntary and a matter of best practice.  The reports had been recommended for approval by the Remuneration Committee at its meeting on 15 January 2025.

The recommendation was moved by Councillor Liz Leffman, Chair of the Remuneration Committee and seconded by Councillor Liz Brighouse, Deputy Chair.

Following discussion an electronic vote was taken.  The recommendation was passed with 56 votes in favour, none against and no abstentions.

RESOLVED to:

a) Note and approve the council’s statutory gender equality pay gap report of 2024 for onward submission to the Gender Pay Gap Service, and making it available to the council’s employees, and on the council's website by 30 March 2025.

b) Note the council’s voluntary ethnicity pay gap report of 2024.