Employers will have to publish salary information in job adverts under government plans to rewrite anti-discrimination laws.<\/p>\n
Details of other job conditions could also have to be disclosed to candidates, under the draft proposals.<\/p>\n
Ministers argue greater transparency will help people navigate the jobs market and could prevent future pay discrimination claims.<\/p>\n
However, details of exactly what salary information will have to be shared are yet to be hammered out. <\/p>\n
Officials plan to consult on whether exact salaries will have to be displayed, or potentially a pay range or “benchmark rate” for open roles.<\/p>\n
They also plan to ask industry groups whether information beyond basic salary, such as bonuses, should be made available.<\/p>\n
Employers that do not publish a job advert for a role would have to give candidates the information in writing prior to a job interview.<\/p>\n
In a policy document, the Cabinet Office said salary information would help jobseekers make informed application decisions, and improve the hiring process for companies by weeding out candidates with “misaligned pay expectations”.<\/p>\n
Citing various academic studies, it also said transparency would help prevent “unequal outcomes” when salaries are offered to successful applicants.<\/p>\n
“When pay is opaque, salary decisions can be influenced by stereotypes \u2013 such as stereotypes of women, ethnic minorities, or disabled people,” it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employers will have to publish salary information in job adverts under government plans to rewrite anti-discrimination laws. Details…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-693601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}