Belfast City Council is to become the first council in Northern Ireland to record and report its gender pay gaps. An Alliance Party motion was passed on Friday in City Hall during a meeting of the council's Strategic Policy and Resources Committee. It will go to the full council meeting next month for ratification. Since 2017, all organisations in England, Scotland and Wales with more than 250 employees have been obliged to record and report gender pay gap data.
Currently, however, there is no legal obligation at all in Northern Ireland to do so. Read more:Belvoir Park Hospital site housing plan approved despite concerns Alliance Balmoral Councillor Tara Brooks, who proposed the motion, said: "In this day and age, the thought that women could still be earning less than their male counterparts on average is totally objectionable, and we must be taking every possible step to monitor the situation if we’re ever going to bridge that ga