(NUJ) The NUJ has expressed concern that the Equality Bill - being debated in the UK Parliament today - will not do enough to stop pay discrimination in the private sector.

When the union does workplace surveys women journalists almost always come out as earning far less than their male colleagues.

But the government refuses to make employers publish pay audits and act on them.

Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary, said: "Unfortunately the Equality Bill does not contain the key reforms needed to close the gender pay gap in the private sector.

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