Football clubs bottom of gender pay gap league
WEST Bromwich Albion has the biggest gender pay gap in the West Midlands, new figures reveal.
The widest gap was reported at Premier League Baggies due to the massive pay of salaried male players compared to female club staff.
Albion was followed other big West Midland clubs.
A West Bromwich Albion football club spokesman said: “The differential in pay for a men’s football club will always remain due to the salaries paid to players, all of whom are male. The club will continue to develop and promote its equality and diversity policies to ensure that those individuals with protected characteristics are not marginalised or treated differently.”
There were 33 based in the West which paid female by the football companies Midlands employees more than men on average. Only one company, Thera East Midlands, paid men and women the same on average.
But Jaguar Land Rover – the region’s biggest company by annual turnover – was among those employers that failed to publish its gender pay gap figures. Businesses with 250 employees or more were required to submit the data on gender pay gaps to the Government Equalities Office by last week and more than 10,000 complied.
Of those, 78 per cent had a pay gap in favour of men. The rest either have no gender pay gap (8 per cent) or one that actually favours women (14 per cent).
The Equality and Human Rights Commission will write to employers who have not complied this week, giving them 28 days to publish the figures before an investigation takes place and an unlawful act notice is issued.
Courts can impose an unlimited fine on those which do not comply.