My agency is using the term Parity Pay on all our pay rates. Google it. It basically means equal pay for men and women. WTF? As if there has been a different pay rate for women drivers, when? Last year? Last decade? Last 50 years?
I would understand if this problem existed in recent history, but this can only been seen as virtue signalling. What is this supposed to achieve. To attract more women drivers into the industry? I’m falling of the chair rolling on the floor laughing.
Pay discrimination is not the cause of lack of women drivers. It’s like plumbers, and builders, and mechanics. Men are more attracted to those professions.
I think it’s a distraction to compensate for the crap pay rates shoved under our noses after IR 35. Although it means equal pay for full time workers, it’ also means equal pay for men and women. A better choice of words could have been used. That and the NHS rainbow on the email. We all know where that came from.
Your thoughts. And if you are a transport or working in agency admin, please spare us your patronising responses. Your’e not egg heads.