Call to end gender pay inequality.MOST people believed firms should have to check their wage rates under moves to close the gender pay gap, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report today. A survey by the Fawcett Society The Fawcett Society is an organization in the United Kingdom which promotes feminism and campaigns for equality between men and women. It is a charity registered with the Charity Commission. and Unison unison, in music, tones identical in pitch produced by two or more parts or voices. In popular usage a vocal composition is said to be sung in unison even though some of the voices are separated from others by the interval of an octave. showed massive support for new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. requiring employers to conduct pay audits, and to take action if differences in rates for men and women were found. The poll of 1,000 adults also revealed half of men and a third of women were unaware of the 17 per cent gender pay gap for full time workers. Campaigners dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. today Equal Pay Day, arguing women effectively worked for nothing for the rest of the year because of the difference in pay. Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: "As a result of the 17.1 per cent full-time gender pay gap, October 30 marks the point in the year when women across Britain can be said to be working for free. "We cannot afford to let this continue. Government must face the fact that equal pay law isn't working. With one in three employment discrimination claims being for unequal pay, and cases taking up to ten years to complete, the tribunal system is at breaking point. "On top of that, last year the gender pay gap even got wider." |
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