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Gender pay gap regulations strengthen HR's role and reputation
The "external shock" of gender pay gap reporting will end up strengthening HR's standing and influence, if Australia's experience mirrors that of participants in a UK study.
For her paper on HR managers' framing of the UK's gender pay gap regulations, King's College London researcher Janet Walsh conducted in-depth interviews with HR specialists shortly after the obligations were introduced in 2017, and again after two rounds of reporting.
Walsh, who notes that HR managers are typically involved in both the reporting of gender pay gap statistics, and "the writing of any accompanying narrative", says initially, concerns about the risk of confused understandings was a "significant theme"...
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