All eyes are currently on the pension gender pay gap. There have been recent articles written about this issue which have really evidenced the disparities when it comes to pension payments between men and women. The Guardian reported on 27th May 2023 that the trade union Prospect believes that the percentage difference in pensions for …
On the 30 March 2023, the European Parliament adopted the legislative proposal of the European Commission to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms (the Pay Transparency Directive. This directive is very important, there is …
I hope many of you engaged in Ethnicity Pay Gap Day which was on the 8th January. There was quite a lot of engagement and I have written about this already. We also held our first Board meeting in January which was fully of some creative ideas and actions to enhance the presence of the …
In this week’s guest column, Director of Equilibrium Mediation Consulting and the founder of the Ethnicity Pay Gap campaign and Ethnicity Pay Gap Day, Dianne Greyson, highlights why it’s time for businesses and the UK Government to take real action to close the ethnicity pay gap by paying Black, Asian and ethnic minority workers fairly. Many people …
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I thought about creating a little video of thanks to everyone who supported Ethnicity Pay Gap day but I felt I needed to say more about all that was happening. I started engaging with everyone on the 3rd of January, to get people prepared for Ethnicity Pay Gap Day. Each day I released something different …
Almost half of Black workers in Britain (43 per cent) have personally experienced a pay gap because of their race or think this pay inequality exists in their current workplace, according to new polling data. More than two in five Black staff members have grappled with this disparity in pay while, by contrast, over half (57 percent) of white …
You may or may not have seen an article written by Nadine White in the Independent Newspaper on Friday 13th May 2022. It noted that there was a ‘lack of will’ by the government to tackle the race disparity after ministers refused to introduce mandatory reporting. We all know that a recent statement from the …
I was very pleased to see a piece in the Guardian Newspaper today, announcing that Business, Unions and EHRC press the government on Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting. In the article it states that the UK’s biggest business lobby group the TUC, and human rights watch dog expressed the importance of data gathering to help tackle …
2021 continues to be the year of change for the #EthnicityPayGap Campaign. The founder of the #EthinicityPayGap campaign, Dianne Greyson, has developed an online questionnaire that aims to explore the extent and impact of pay inequality on black women living in the UK. The survey, which went live on the 1st of June 2021 and …
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The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report was published recently. On page 116 you will find information on the Ethnicity Pay Gap. This section seeks to address the role of the organisation to report their Ethnicity Pay Gap if they want too. It goes on further to imply that there is no real pay …