The Equal Pay Act (1970) and Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations (1983) require employers to give male and female workers equal pay for work of equal value. For the purposes of the Act 'pay' includes not just wages or salary, but the following terms and conditions of employment:
The principles of equal pay also extend to:
An employee may make an equal pay claim to a tribunal either during his or her employment or within six months of the termination of employment (within six years if the claim is being made in a civil court).
Until April 2014 there was a statutory questionnaire that a female employee could use to question her employer about any pay disparity between her and a man performing equal work. This questionnaire has now been abolished, but the employee may still write to her employer asking the same questions that you would have put in the questionnaire.
Gender pay reporting legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between their male and female employees.