No equality at the Equalities Office
THE Government department whose job is to name and shame firms which have a salary gender gap pays its male staff almost 6% more than female workers.
The Government Equalities Office also pays ethnic staff 12.3% less than white colleagues and disabled people 11.25% less than able-bodied ones.
Tory MP Philip Davies, said: “Given that one of the GEO’s top priorities is to stamp out these pay gaps across the country, I don’t see how it can be in a position to lecture everybody else when it can’t even manage to do it.
“No doubt the reason there are pay gaps in this department is the very same reason why it exists elsewhere.”
He said the GEO, run by Justine Greening, the Minister for Women and Equalities, should “find a way to actually achieve equality” before rolling it out across the country.