The Government has announced plans for gender pay gap reporting in Ireland.
The new regulations will require organisations with over 250 employees to report on their gender pay gap in 2022.
Businesses will choose a 'snapshot' date of their employees in June 2022 and will report on the hourly gender pay gap for those employees on the same date in December 2022.
Employers will also be required to publish a statement setting out the reasons for the gender pay gap in their company and what measures are being taken to address it.
Regulations under the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 will be published in the coming weeks.
The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman announced the plans today to coincide with International Women’s Day.
"This reporting requirement will help to ensure pay transparency exists in organisations and will play an important role in achieving gender equality in the workplace," Mr O'Gorman said.
SIPTU, the country's largest trade union, has welcomed the announcement.
"SIPTU members have long campaigned for the elimination of the gap in male and female earnings in Ireland," said the union's Deputy General Secretary, Ethel Buckley.
"Pay transparency has an important role to play in shining a light on disparities within employments in relation to how work undertaken by male workers and by female workers is valued and remunerated," she added.
