# UK watchdog seeks workers’ right to access colleagues’ pay details

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/give-uk-workers-right-to-know-colleagues-pay-to-prevent-disparities-says-watchdog/
- Published: 2026-10-28T13:34:02+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T14:07:27+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/28/uk-workers-right-know-colleagues-pay-disparities-gender-pay-gap-discrimination-watchdog-ehrc
- Topics: Art, Business, Culture, UK, World

## Key points

- EHRC urges a legal right to request colleagues’ pay details.
- Employers could face a deadline to answer pay enquiries.
- The full-time gender pay gap stood at 6.8% in April.

## Summary

The Equality and Human Rights Commission says UK workers should have a legal right to see pay information for colleagues doing similar work, if they suspect unequal treatment. It argues that greater transparency could help prevent discrimination, resolve disputes earlier and reduce the gender pay gap.

Under the proposals, workers could request details including salary, hours, bonuses, overtime, job descriptions and records of job evaluations. Employers would have to respond within a set timeframe, and the watchdog also wants them barred from asking job applicants about their salary history. The median gender pay gap for full-time workers was 6.8% in April; in finance, the mean and median gaps were 24% and 22%.

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