The UK government has made clear, in its "Inclusive
Britain" policy paper published on March 17, that
ethnicity pay gap reporting will not be mandatory for employers
"at this stage."
It has said one of the reasons for this is that it does not want
to impose more reporting burdens on employers as they recover from
the pandemic but it's not clear if (or when) this will be back
on the agenda.
Even though ethnicity pay gap reporting won't be mandatory
right now, many employers have already begun voluntarily publishing
information about their ethnicity pay gaps to address pay
disparity. To support voluntary publishing of this data the
government expects to produce guidance this summer on how to do
this.
