Equal pay means that men and women in the same employment performing equal work must receive equal pay.
It has been unlawful since 1970 for employers in the UK to pay men and women differently for doing the same or a broadly similar job. However, when looking at the gender pay gap there are many other reasons why, on average, levels of pay differ among men and women. For example we are aware that in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) industries, women only make up a fifth of the workforce.
Having reviewed our results, RED is comfortable that we do not have an equal pay issue and, although we recognise that there is work for us to do to try and reduce the gender gap of male to female ratio we have made improvements in this area.
RED acknowledges that it does not have enough female workers across all levels and grade in the business which influences the reporting data.
