Minister Norma Foley, Minister for Children, Disability and Equality announced on International Women’s Day that the government’s new gender pay reporting portal for 6,000 public and private sector Organisations will be launched in the autumn.
The online portal will, for the first time, bring reports from all private and public sector Organisations together instead of having them published on individual websites. The purpose of the portal is to draw attention to the importance of gender pay gap reporting and to allow the information to be fully searchable by members of the public.
Further details of the online portal will be made available in the coming months.
November Deadline for Publication of Gender Pay Gap Reports
The Minister’s announcement also confirmed that this year’s updated regulations will require Organisations to report their data via the new gender pay gap portal in time for this year’s publication deadline which is the end of November. All Organisations in scope of the legislation will therefore have a five-month timeframe within which to publish their gender pay gap report. This is a one-month reduction on the current six-month window.
Organisations can also upload their gender pay gap reports with additional information on their own websites if they wish.