Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting And Incomplete Data: A View From The UK

Despite government inaction, increasing numbers of UK employers are calculating their ethnicity pay gaps. This article explains the problems that arise from using incomplete datasets when calculating the gap and how these can be resolved.

Ethnicity pay gap reporting in the UK

As we have reported previously, the government has been largely silent on ethnicity pay gap reporting and the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities recommended against mandatory reporting in its report last March. Business groups have in contrast tended to come down on the other side of the argument. In July, a rare alliance of the Confederation of British Industry, the Trades Union Congress, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission wrote a joint letter  to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, calling for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting be introduced to help tackle racial inequalities at work.