Companies could be ordered to disclose any pay gap between white employees and their minority ethnic colleagues under reforms supported by Boris Johnson’s race equality advisers. Several sources said the commission is expected to urge the government to commit to making annual ethnicity pay reporting mandatory for larger firms. One former race adviser to the government welcomed any introduction of ethnicity pay gap reporting but warned that it is only the beginning of tackling discrimination at work. Lord Woolley, the head of No 10’s race disparity unit until last July, said: “The ethnicity pay gap legislation is the lowest hanging fruit to acknowledge and tackle race discrimination in the workplace. A survey conducted last year by PwC found that one in 10 firms were voluntarily publishing their ethnicity pay gap figures.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 06:00 UTC