The survey of 10,000 companies found that women in some sectors earn up to a quarter less than men PHILIP TOSCANO/PACompanies face unlimited fines over the gender pay gap as British employers were found to be paying men as much as five times more than women. As a thousand bosses scrambled yesterday to meet a government deadline to provide staff pay details, Baroness Williams of Trafford, the equalities minister, warned companies that failed to produce a plan to reduce the pay gap about “unlimited fines”. Last night about 10,000 employers had submitted figures as part of the government’s biggest exercise to determine the size of the pay gap, with at least 1,200 waiting until yesterday to submit data. Employers with more than 250 employees had until midnight to publish figures on the average pay of female staff compared with the average pay of male staff…

Source: The Times April 04, 2018 22:52 UTC