Law firms will not be obliged to publish their gender pay gap figures by the end of April this year, with the U.K. government announcing that it has suspended the deadline for reporting due to the chaos caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.

In a joint statement published on the government’s website, the Minister for Women & Equalities, Liz Truss, and chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, David Isaac, said: “We recognise that employers across the country are facing unprecedented uncertainty and pressure at this time. Because of this we feel it is only right to suspend enforcement of gender pay gap reporting this year.”