EHRC publishes investigation into unlawful pay discrimination at the BBC

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published its investigation into unlawful pay discrimination at the BBC, in which it found no unlawful acts of pay discrimination. However, it has also recommended specific improvements in an effort to increase transparency and rebuild trust with women at the BBC. The EHRC investigation found that at the BBC there was inadequate record-keeping on how decisions about pay were made, leading to confusion and poor communication with women making complaints. EHRC’s recommendations, set out in its investigation report, include regularly reviewing any job evaluation scheme that is being used to make pay grading decisions to ensure that they are up to date, conducting equal pay audits, which comply with EHRC guidance, at least every five years, and the continuation of measures to narrow the overlap between job pay ranges in different bands where feasible.