Sheeraz Gulsher calls for the mandatory reporting of pay disparities based on race to address the growing imbalance in the workplace
The cost of living crisis affects us all, but it does not affect us equally. Research from People Like Us, a non-profit organisation, has found that people from minority ethnic backgrounds are disproportionately impacted by the challenging economic environment. Our findings show that this disparity starts in the workplace.
Working professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds are nearly twice as likely to have been told they won’t be getting a promised pay rise this year due to inflation (19% compared with 10% of white professionals). To compound matters, two-thirds (67%) of racially diverse working professionals believe that a white colleague doing the same job is on a higher salary.
