'Matter of urgency' | Renewed calls for introduction of mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting

A business charity has written to the Prime Minister urging him to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.

Business in the Community (BITC), the Prince’s Responsible Business Network, has written to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, as well as the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, calling for the introduction of mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for UK employers with over 250 employees.

The letter asks Sunak and Starmer to work together to legislate for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting as soon as possible.

BITC, Baroness McGregor-Smith and UK employers have been calling on the Government to introduce mandatory reporting for some time. This new call for mandatory reporting comes as predictions using census data show that by 2051, nearly a third of working-age adults in England and Wales will most likely be from ethnic minority backgrounds.