Funding snapshot
- Programme area:
- Racial justice
- Amount:
- £216,000
- Length of grant:
- 18 months
A collaborative campaign for effective mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.
The challenge
Black and minoritised workers in the UK are more likely to be in low-paid jobs than their white counterparts – and even when they do the same work, they are often paid less.
This is called the ethnicity pay gap. It contributes to high levels of poverty among Black and minoritised Londoners.
Currently, there is no law which enforces employers to publish ethnicity pay data, in the same way that they do for gender.
The project
We fund a collaborative project to campaign for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting. It’s coordinated by ShareAction, and developed jointly alongside Action for Race Equality and Dianne Greyson from the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign.
The Labour government has pledged to make ethnicity pay gap (EPG) reporting mandatory through the Draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. The campaign is now focused on influencing this bill to ensure it is more ambitious in its reporting requirements.
Mandatory reporting won’t close the pay gap on its own. But fit-for-purpose reporting requirements will shine a light on racial inequalities in workplaces and open the door for further action. Ultimately, this will help tackle poverty and inequality among Black and minoritised Londoners in work.
