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Pay transparency should be high on HR's agenda, as discrepancies are likely to be become known with or without legislation, an HR advisor says.

Commenting on news of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill being introduced next week, Gartner HR vice president Aaron McEwan says employees are becoming more and more "emboldened" to discuss pay discrepancies regardless of legal frameworks.

Pay secrecy clauses "contribute to this enormous discrepancy, particularly a gender pay imbalance and it kind of goes against where we're seeing everything else [go]", he tells HR Daily.

Major job boards in the US, for example, now require employers to publicise the compensation package, McEwan notes...