gender pay gap

The aul Motherhood Penalty seems to be at it again… A recent survey of 2,000 professionals in Ireland has revealed some of the challenges faced by working mothers. According to the survey by Robert Walters, a specialist recruitment firm, workplaces in Ireland aren’t exactly providing the support packages, pay raises, and promotions that these hardworking […]

3 years ago

The company maintains that they are the first major Irish organisation to report a zero % pay gap. The Irish postal service An Post has taken steps to reduce the company’s gender pay gap from 3.7% to zero. As reported in Breaking News, the organisation said that it aims to keep the pay gap between […]

5 years ago

What do you think about this? The gender wage gap between men and women is an issue that often raises its head. Last year it was discovered that because of the wage gap that women were actually working for free for the last two months of 2020. A recent study has found that there might […]

5 years ago

The pay gap is still visible. Women are expected to earn less in their first graduate roles than their male counterparts, according to new studies. The salaries that women expect to earn after they graduate from university is much lower than what men expect to earn across different sectors. In new research carried out by […]

5 years ago

You wouldn’t think in 2020 that this would still be a problem. From here on out women are basically working for free. That’s the message from the WorkEqual campaign, which has found that from today due to the current gender pay gap of 14.4 per cent, women in Ireland are effectively working for free. Speaking […]

6 years ago

Brilliant news. The government is currently looking into new legislation that would see businesses with more than 250 employees required to report any and all differences in hourly pay rates and bonuses. It will also apply to part time workers. If employers do not comply with the new law, they will be sanctioned and fined. […]

8 years ago