Written question WQ84776
- Asked by
- Altaf HussainConservative
- To be answered by
- Minister for Social Justice
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 9 days
Question
What assessment has the Minister made of the potential merits of prohibiting employers from requesting salary history from new employees in an effort to help tackle the replication of pay gaps between organisations?
Answer
Answered by Deputy Minister for Social Partnership
I am committed to promoting fair work across Wales and to addressing pay gaps as part of this.
Our social partnership approach provides us with opportunities to work with employers and trade unions to address workplace equality, diversity and inclusion issues, including pay gaps. Where the current devolution settlement limits our ability to legislate in this area, we are using the policy levers and influence we do have to advance fair work and tackle workforce inequality.
We have introduced a new national milestone to eliminate the pay gap for gender, disability and ethnicity by 2050 and work is underway to review the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED). This is building upon work to improve the gathering and publication of employment and other equalities data within the public sector in Wales.