Remote Working: Equal Pay

(asked on 19th June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the impact of working from home policies on the gender pay gap.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
This question was answered on 27th June 2023

We have not made an assessment of the impact of home or remote working policies on the gender pay gap specifically.

The gender pay gap for all employees has been falling over time. The gap was 14.9% in 2022, and remains lower than the pre-covid period, where it stood at 17.4% in 2019.

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