Asda have published their Gender Pay Report revealing average female employees are paid 12.5 per cent less than their male colleagues.
The retailer disclosed their report ahead of the 4 April deadline for large companies to disclose gender wage disparities, in accord with new legal requirements.
The company attributed the gap to a prevalence of men in senior roles, which their vice present of people Hayley Tatum said they were “committed to addressing”.
The 12.5 per cent mean pay difference was taken from all Asda employees, and was lower than the national average of 17.4 per cent. Their competitor Tesco, who released their gender pay report last week posted 12 per cent mean pay discrepancy.
Fellow retailers Marks and Spencer also revealed a mean pay gap of 12.3 per cent two days ago.
Asda’s median pay difference, was 8.7 per cent, better than the national average of 18.4 per cent. The mean pay gap is usually higher due to male prevalence in higher paid and directorial positions.
86% of Asda’s colleagues work in hourly paid roles in stores, which have set base rates of pay. The median gender pay gap, within that population, based on those rates alone is 0% and the mean gender pay gap is 0.7%
35% of those occupying senior roles at Asda are women, whereas 70% of those in junior roles are women.
Asda’s Senior Vice President of People, Hayley Tatum said: “Rates of pay and access to benefits and opportunities are the same at Asda, regardless of gender. Whilst our gender pay gap is better than the national average we recognise that, like many businesses, we have challenges when it comes to female representation in more senior roles – and that is something we’re committed to addressing.”
In its report, Asda outlines its commitments to closing the gap by supporting more women into senior roles. The supermarket says that it has already introduced flexible job design and unconscious bias training to ensure talented women are encouraged and enabled to progress into more senior roles.
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