Motion
- Motion title
- Gender pay gap
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Interim Congress
- Meeting date
- 13 February 2021
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 17
- Motion text
Despite valuable action the gender pay gap across post 16 education remains. This is fuelled by a majority of women in the lower quartiles of pay, especially those on inferior casualised contracts and multiple oppressions of women in intersecting equality strands also with similar pay gaps. Maternity pay, sick pay and reasonable adjustments fuel this pay gap.
Congress resolves to:
1. promote this issue with political parties and file an early day motion at Parliament to secure further statutory provision to force employers to comply
2. progress a full review and mandatory equal pay audit across all sectors for hard evidence of the real progression gap
3. hold the special NEC on unequal pay to progress this issue
4. improve guidance for negotiations in branches on specific sectoral issues
5. promote facility time for women and casualised women reps in branches and at national UCU meetings.
- Proposing body
- Women members' standing committee (WMSC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2021/C/02-13/093/17