Issue - meetings
Gender Pay Audit
Meeting: 19/03/2018 - Audit and Risk Committee (Item 184)
Minutes:
The following points were made during the discussion:-
· Islington figures were more favourable when making comparisons with other London Boroughs such as Hackney and Haringey. This information would be circulated to Audit Committee members for their information.
· Although the figures had not been audited, the Director of Human Resources was confident that the figures had been calculated correctly. There was no statutory requirement to audit the figures.
· It was considered that men and women would both be paid the same for the equivalent job although those people that had been in the job for a longer period of time could be paid at a higher rate.
· The figures were taken from the payroll as at March 2017 but it was expected that there would be a further report in May/June which would take figures from payroll data as at March 2018.
· It was hoped to do more work around groups of jobs or using data or dip sampling to assess possible discrepancies.
RESOLVED that the report be approved for publication.