'Right direction' | Equal pay reforms could force firms to post salary information in job adverts

The Government has launched a 15-week consultation on reforming the UK’s equal pay system, with proposals covering salary transparency, tribunal processes, enforcement powers and protections for ethnic minority and disabled workers.

Ministers said findings from a call for evidence on equality law showed that the existing framework had become too complicated, costly and slow. Thousands of claims are reportedly caught in a system where proceedings can take years, and sometimes decades, to resolve.