Equal pay audit
The law on equal pay in the UK was introduced by the Equal Pay Act 1970. It is now contained within the Equality Act 2010.
The law on equal pay requires that both men and women receive the same level of pay as employees of the opposite sex who are performing the same work, or work assessed as being of equal value as determined by an analytical job evaluation scheme which looks at the skills and requirements of the job. Any differences in pay must be for a genuine and material reason, which is not the difference of sex.
The statutory code of practice on equal pay recommends that the most effective way of establishing whether pay policies and systems are discriminatory is to undertake an equal pay audit.
LJMU is committed to the principle of equal pay for work of equal value for all employees. The audits provide an analysis of basic pay and exclude sessional, casual and hourly paid staff.
The most recent equal pay audit was conducted in 2015. The audit will continue on an annual basis in line with Gender Pay Gap reporting.