Should firms have to reveal ethnicity pay gap?


The government has launched a consultation to look at whether mandatory reporting will help improve the pay and career prospects of ethnic minority workers.


If reporting is introduced, companies would have to publish their ethnicity pay gaps with the aim of exposing the extent of inequality that ethnic minorities face in the workplace.


The consultation will run until January 2019 and will ask companies with more than 250 employees to share their views on what information should be published “to allow for decisive action to be taken”.


In 2017, a government Race Disparity Audit found that across a range of sectors Asian, black and other ethnic groups were more likely to be on a low income.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/747546/ethnicity-pay-reporting-consultation.pdf