Burnham announces legal requirement for employers to publish salaries in job adverts

The prime minister said firms should publish pay details now rather than wait for legislation, which ministers say will be brought forward as soon as possible.

• Andy Burnham announced his government will make it a legal requirement for employers to publish salaries on job adverts.
• Burnham said jobseekers should know what a job pays before spending their time and effort applying for it.
• The government said it has not decided what information employers must publish, which company sizes must comply, or how the rule will be enforced.
• Neil Carberry, chief executive of the CIPD, said drafting job adverts was "best left to good employer practice rather than government regulation."