Emily Kearsey is a solicitor in the London employment law team at Goodman Derrick LLP. In this article, she discusses equal pay law and ways in which tech entrepreneurs can avoid the gender pay gap.
The effect of equal pay law is that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. On the other hand, the gender pay gap is a measure of the difference between average earnings of men and women in general, whatever their job roles may be.
These two interrelating areas of law are at the forefront of employment law today. This is in part due to high profile equal pay cases currently battling their way through the courts and also due to the new gender pay gap reporting rules which businesses across the country are grappling with....