Should the U.S. Import the U.K.'s Gender Pay Gap Law?
Moribund and dysfunctional as it might be these days, Britain is also strangely progressive—arguably way ahead of us Yanks—when it comes to tackling the gender pay gap.
April 30, 2019 at 02:00 PM
4 minute read
Very little is cool about Britannia these days. Brexit is an unmitigated disaster, Meghan and Kate are bickering, and 97-year-old Prince Philip had his car keys taken away (he mowed down an innocent commoner earlier this year).
Moribund and dysfunctional as it might be, Britain is also strangely progressive—arguably way ahead of us Yanks—when it comes to tackling the gender pay gap. Last year, the U.K. implemented legislation that requires businesses with 250 or more employees to report the wage and bonus pay gaps between men and women.
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