Gender Pay Report 2020

MC Group Limited
Gender Pay Report 2020

Within our group there are 3 trading businesses: MC Group Ltd, MC Rental Ltd & MC Truck & Bus Ltd.
Of these only MC Truck & Bus has more than 250 employees and its Gender Pay Report is set out below, although we have included the overall group information for reference.

MC Truck & Bus Limited

Gender Pay

We welcome the government’s decision for companies to publish their Gender pay gaps and see this as a step towards removing all pay inequality in the workplace.

However, it should be noted that the legislation is distinct from equal pay as it is not measuring the parity of pay for roles of the same level. Instead it compares the average pay by gender of all roles regardless of level or type.

The commercial vehicle sector has traditionally been male dominated and at the calculation date the company’s workforce was 82% male employees and 18% female employees. The primary reason for this mix is that the entry point for many employees is through an HGV apprenticeship scheme. Most of our senior managers were HGV technicians early in their careers and it has been hard to recruit female HGV apprentices, though we have had some recent success.

The snap-shot date for this report was 5th April 2020, which was during the first national lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this period the company and the group had around 37% of staff on the governments furlough scheme and as such they are not included in the gender pay gap figures. This has distorted the information to such an extent they are unrepresentative and so it is difficult to draw any conclusions or develop actions plans. Hopefully the 2021 report should provide better data and a truer comparison with previous years.

Gender Pay Gap Information

The data below has been prepared in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017.

                                                                           MC Truck & Bus         Overall Group
1. Gender Pay Gap

a. Mean Gender Pay Gap                                             27.7%                      21.6%
b. Median Gender Pay Gap                                          33.4%                      33.1%

2. Bonus Gender Pay Gap

a. Mean Bonus Gender Pay Gap                                  76.8%                      40.3%
b. Median Bonus Gender Pay Gap                               48.6%                      57.9%

3. Proportion of male and female employees receiving bonuses
a. Male employees                                                    30.9%                       35.2%
b. Female employees                                                31.8%                       44.9%

4. Male and female employees in each pay quartile

MC Truck & Bus

                 Top 25%   50%-75%   25%-50%   Bottom 25%

Male            95.3%         95.2%           92.9%         61.9%

Female        4.7%           4.8%             7.1%         38.1%

Overall Group

                Top 25%   50%-75%   25%-50%   Bottom 25%

Male           88.7%        94.3%           79.2%           55.8%

Female       11.3%          5.7%            20.8%            44.2%

Peter Booth BSc FCA
Financial Director
22nd January 2019