Make UK employers report ethnicity pay gap, MPs tell ministers

Women and equalities committee says big companies should publish data as they do for gender

MPs have urged the government to introduce mandatory reporting of the pay gap between staff of different ethnicities, saying there is no excuse for failing to tackle racial inequality in UK workplaces.

Large companies should be required by law to publish data on employee salaries, following the framework already in place for gender, the House of Commons women and equalities committee (WEC) said in a report published on Tuesday.

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