At least half of UK’s Black staff affected by racial pay gap, new research indicates

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And while mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting is still in discussion, many companies, including Glassdoor, are voluntarily publishing their diversity and inclusion reports. “Ultimately, company investments in diversity and inclusion efforts are both a social good and a critical part of a company’s workforce management strategy—a particularly salient consideration at a time when finding and retaining talent is so difficult.” The majority of Black workers think their employer needs to do more to close the ethnicity pay gap within their company. open image in gallery MPs are calling for new legislation forcing large companies to publish data on their ethnicity pay gap Earlier this year, Conservative MP Caroline Nokes blasted her own party for its “lack of will” to tackle racial disparities after ministers refused to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting. Other cross-party MPs have lobbied for legislation to make large companies publish data on their ethnicity pay gap in order to help crack down on workplace inequalities.