Gender Pay Gap

Ireland's biggest law firms made little to no progress on closing the gender pay gap in the first year since mandatory reporting began, according to analysis by Irish Legal News. Matheson, A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, McCann FitzGerald, Mason Hayes & Curran and William Fry are among businesses

The Socialist Lawyers Association of Ireland, a newly formed group, has issued an open letter in response to the release of gender pay gap figures in some of Ireland's largest law firms, as reported in Irish Legal News earlier this month. We reproduce the letter below. Matheson highlighted the impac

Women at Ireland's largest law firms are earning up to 61 per cent less than their male colleagues, figures released under Ireland's gender pay gap reporting law suggest.

The number of women in senior leadership positions in Ireland has declined in recent years, according to research by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran. The firm’s fifth annual in-house counsel and gender parity survey was conducted during the summer of 2022 and reflects the views of o

New research into the gender pay gap in the legal profession has found 84 per cent of women in law believe they won’t see true gender pay equality in their working life, while 29 per cent said it won’t happen in the next 100 years. Over half (54 per cent) of female legal professionals be

Matheson partner Ailbhe Dennehy and solicitor Ciara Taggart provide a timely update on the upcoming gender pay gap reporting obligations for Irish employers. On International Women’s Day, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth provided an eagerly awaited update

Long-awaited gender pay gap reporting legislation is set to be strengthened through new government amendments. Ministers yesterday agreed to bring report stage amendments to the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill, which was first published in 2019 but had its progress through the Oireachtas disrupted b

Eugene F. Collins partnered with workplace compliance experts, Legal Island to deliver a seminar on the new Irish gender pay gap reporting regime. Aimed at reversing gender pay inequality, the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill has been referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality. Once ena