Ethnicity pay gap: Why the UK needs mandatory reporting

By Susan Milner, Professor of European Politics and Society, University of Bath

In the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement intensified calls for racial equality across all aspects of society. Though efforts to eradicate police brutality were chief concerns following the murder of George Floyd by police in the US, other structural racial issues were highlighted as urgent problems too.

One of those demands included encouraging companies to do more to support black and ethnic minority employees. As the movement gained traction,…

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