UK forces 9,000 firms to publish salary data in bid to close wage gap

The United Kingdom has mandated that all companies with 250 employees or more must publicly disclose their gender pay gaps by April 2018. More than 9,000 companies, which together employ some 15 million people, will have to measure and report how they pay their male and female employees. Some companies have disclosed figures early: Virgin Money has reported a 36% pay gap between its male and female workers, with men holding 67% of the best-paid jobs.

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