Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021

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Number 20 of 2021


GENDER PAY GAP INFORMATION ACT 2021


CONTENTS

Section

1. Definitions

2. Gender pay gap information

3. Amendment of Principal Act - insertion of sections 85B and 85C

4. Amendment of section 88 of Principal Act

5. Amendment of section 32 of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014

6. Review

7. Short title, collective citations and commencement


Acts Referred to

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7)

Education Act 1998 (No. 51)

Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (No. 11)

Employment Equality Act 1998 (No. 21)

Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015

Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 (No. 25)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 (No. 34)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

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Number 20 of 2021


GENDER PAY GAP INFORMATION ACT 2021


An Act to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to require regulations to be made that will require certain employers to publish information relating to the remuneration of their employees by reference to the gender of such employees for the purpose of showing whether there are differences in such remuneration referable to gender and, if there are such differences, the size of such differences and to require such employers to publish statements setting out the reasons for such differences and the measures (if any) taken, or proposed to be taken, by those employers to eliminate or reduce such differences; to make a consequential amendment to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 ; and to provide for related matters.

[13th July, 2021]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: