Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director of Human Resources and Chief People Officer.

The Sub Committee received a report of the Executive Director of Human Resources and Chief People Officer, concerning the City Corporation’s Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability Pay Gaps as of March 2023.

Members noted that the Ethnicity Pay Gap was larger than the Gender Pay Gap, and these were reported differently – for instance, the Ethnicity Pay Gap had been broken down into aggregated categories. Officers now wanted to use this data to look at methods with which to reduce the pay gaps – for example, using the job families approach under Ambition 25 to see how workers could progress through their careers.

It was queried whether it was possible to see trends within the data. Officers cautioned that whilst regular reporting on Pay Gaps had been occurring regularly for many years, it had not been reported this comprehensively, with some data not collected until more recent years. However, as there had more been comprehensive tracking in recent years, some progress or trends could be identified and could be incorporated into the report for the next year.

RESOLVED – That the report be received, and its contents noted.