As well as an employment caselaw update on 27/08/26, Louisa Simpson is delivering a live seminar with MBL on 30/09/26 on Equal Pay – an overview of the present position, and a look forward to proposed and upcoming changes.

The Labour Government’s Plan to Make Work Pay outlined the measures it intends to introduce to close the gender pay gap. The new Employment Rights Act 2025 will require employers with more than 250 employees to develop & publish equality action plans, and publish gender pay gap information about service providers they contract with for outsourced services. There are also future plans to introduce mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting for employers with 250+ employees, and extend the equal pay regime to cover ethnicity and disability pay discrimination claims.

Louisa’s Seminar will cover:

  • The principle of equal pay and ‘equal work’;
  • The equality clauses implied by the Equality Act 2010;
  • Comparators;
  • The employer’s ‘material factor’ defence;
  • Equal pay and maternity;
  • Case studies and examples; and
  • a look at the changes planned for equal pay in the near future.

Colleagues or contacts who wish to attend this MBL event can do so at a reduced member rate – please contact Chelsey Stuart for a reference code, or to visit the MBL website please click here.