About pay gap reporting
What is pay gap reporting?
Reporting on pay gaps involves a company measuring the differences in pay between men and women, or between different ethnicities, and making this information public.
What impact does pay gap reporting have on the gender pay gap?
International research shows that pay gap reporting is a simple, low-cost, high-impact solution that works to decrease the gender pay gap. It can also have many unexpected benefits such as increased staff morale and retention. When businesses are required to report their pay gaps publicly, it drives meaningful action and can reduce gender pay gaps by 20-40 percent.
What is Still Minding the Gap asking the Government to do?
STILLMindingTheGap.nz is campaigning for the Government to introduce mandatory gender and ethnic pay gap reporting for businesses as an important step to help close unjustified pay gaps.
What has this got to do with biscuits and biscuit tins?
You may not know this, but many laws in New Zealand start their lives in a literal biscuit tin.
When an MP puts forward a members bill, it has to wait to be pulled out and debated. It’s waiting spot at Parliament? An old biscuit tin from the now-defunct retail chain DEKA.
Among the Bills currently in the tin is the Pay Transparency Bill. We want this Bill to come out of the tin, be debated, and brought into law.