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- Sustainability
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The requirement for all UK companies with over 250 employees to report on their respective gender pay gaps has enabled us to look closely at how we remunerate our employees, and to establish the reasons behind our headline figures. As a result, we’ve identified and implemented a number of activities to ensure an on-going and proactive focus regarding gender-related pay.
We’re fully committed to a long-term aim of reducing our gender pay gap, which results from the gender ratios that exist at different levels within the structure of our workforce, rather than as a result of us paying our female employees less than what we pay male employees to undertake like-for-like roles.
For details of Charter Court Financial Services Group Gender pay gap report please follow this link.
2019 Gender Pay Gap Report
At OneSavings Bank we believe strongly in diversity and equality in our workforce. As such, in January 2017, we became a proud signatory of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter; a voluntary commitment to work with the government to build towards gender equality at all levels of our organisation.
By becoming a signatory of the Charter, we have pledged to be one of the best businesses in the sector in terms of gender equality.
The Women in Finance Charter was introduced as part of the Government’s aspiration to improve gender equality in the UK economy. As both the highest paid sector in the country and the sector in which the pay gap is the most stark, the financial services industry received its own review into the representation of women in senior management roles.
We are committed to increasing the representation of women undertaking senior positions within our organisation as we firmly believe that greater diversity strengthens the capabilities of our managers and positively impact our employees.
As such, Our target is that 30% of all Senior Management positions within the OneSavings Bank Group’s UK population will be undertaken by female employees by the end of 2020.
Jason Elphick, Group Counsel and Company Secretary, has been nominated as the senior executive who is responsible and accountable for gender diversity
We will publish progress annually against our target here on our website
We will ensure the pay of our senior executive team is linked to delivery against our gender diversity target.
When OSB first signed up to the Women in Finance Charter (WIFC) in January 2017, there were 16 female employees undertaking senior management positions out of a population of 67 (23.9%).
Following the combination with CCFS, and the associated doubling of our employee base, our WIFC target of 30% by the end of 2020 now represents a single, group-wide target.
As at the end of August 2020, our group wide female representation in senior positions stands at 29.5% (44 females out of 144 senior positions) and as such, represents strong progress towards the achievement of our published target. In addition, we’re proud to have strong female representation at Board level, which at 50% female (4 of 8) positions the Group strongly within the FTSE 250 in terms of Board gender diversity.
Progress has been achieved as a result of a significantly increased level of focus on gender diversity, the provision of detailed monthly management information and regular activity progress updates to the Executive Committee, the Nominations and Governance Committee and the OSB Board.
Whilst the Group has and will continue to always make promotion or recruitment decisions based on performance, competence and expertise, we have made changes to our Group Recruitment and Selection procedures to ensure that when undertaking internal or external recruitment for senior management positions, a high level of focus is placed on establishing gender diverse candidate lists.
In line with this, there is a mandatory requirement that for all senior management vacancies group wide, at least one credible female candidate must be subject to face to face interview before the recruitment process can proceed, with any exceptions to this requirement requiring Executive approval.
We have been proactive in seeking to better support the longer term development and internal progression of our existing female employees through to senior management through OSB’s Women’s Networking Forum, with regular events being extremely well attended. We have however recently expanded the breadth and depth of our approach by instead establishing a group-wide, Diversity and Inclusion Group, who will remain focussed on gender, but will also be considering matters relating to the entire diversity spectrum.
As a Group, we continue to believe that we are on the right track and that our approaches to date have been both appropriate and proportionate.
As we are approaching the end of 2020, we are in the process of considering a revised target, which will certainly exceed 30%. Aligned to this, will we also be giving due consideration to any additional actions and revised approaches which may be required moving forwards in order to assist us in achieving the new target that we publish.
We have joined the Disability Confident scheme. This is a voluntary scheme that looks to help businesses successfully employ and retain disabled people, or those with health conditions.
OneSavings Bank has proudly achieved Disability Confident Employer Level 2 certification.
This is due to us being able to evidence that we are:
Ensuring we get the right people for the business despite their considered barriers to employment due to disability Retaining and developing our employees who have individual needs related to disability by ensuring our intervention and support structure is robust and accessible
Ensuring that disabled people, and those with long term health conditions, have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations within the business.
For more information on what this means click here.
