A group of MPs has recommended that the UK government should force medium-sized companies to reveal their gender pay gaps and push for larger law firms to include partner pay. All companies with more than 50 employees should have to report their gender pay gap from 2020, said the business, energy and industrial strategy committee. Currently only firms with more than 250 employees have to report their gender pay gap, leaving half of the UK workforce without knowledge of their workplace’s gap. The committee criticised the government for “failing to clarify the legal sanctions available to the EHRC to pursue those failing to comply and we recommend that the government rectifies this error at the next opportunity”. Sam Smethers, the chief executive of the Fawcett Society, welcomed the recommendation to include medium-sized companies. “We have to move on from simply reporting the pay gap, to taking action to close it,” she said.

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