Equal Pay Day | Pandemic impacting heavily on equal pay

Today marks Equal Pay Day – the day when women stop earning relative to men – meaning that the topic of pay has been thrown into the spotlight.

In fact, with pay, at least temporarily, brought to the top of the business agenda, Monica Atwal, Managing Partner at Clarkslegal, argues it is worth considering how the pandemic is impacting a variety of different (ethnic, gender) pay inequalities across the workforce.

She exclusively told HR Grapevine: “These [pandemic] challenges confirm the need for urgent measures to be taken to reduce inequality.

“It is very likely that the most marginalised in the labour market will be most adversely impacted by the effects of the pandemic.”