CMA response to consultation on equal pay and pay discrimination
What was announced
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) response to the Office for Equality and Opportunity's consultation on reform of the current equal pay framework.
Key points, in the publisher's words
- The CMA has responded to the Office for Equality and Opportunity’s consultation on reform of the current equal pay framework .
- Our response focuses on the proposed requirement to disclose pay information in job advertisements. It is broadly supportive of improving pay transparency in recruitment and supports, in principle, requiring employers to publish pay information in job adverts. However, it notes these requirements should be designed carefully so that sharing certain types of pay information does not harm competition.
- The response also sets out our views on how the requirement could be designed. It identifies 2 options:
Who and where
UK bodies of power
- Competition and Markets Authority (non ministerial department) · more news
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: Equality, Competition.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-response-to-consultation-on-equal-pay-and-pay-discrimination
- Published 2026-11-10 11:00:41 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-11-10 11:15:43 UTC from GOV.UK
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