Gender pay gap wider for minority ethnic women, Labour finds

It is voluntary for companies to report their ethnicity pay gap and the government has refused to make it mandatory. Photograph: Roman Lacheev/Alamy

Most UK women from minority ethnic backgrounds have already stopped earning two months before Equal Pay Day, a new analysis by the Labour party shows, renewing calls for the government to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reports.

Last year, 18 November was marked by Fawcett Society as Equal Pay Day, the day in the year where the average woman stopped earning relative to the average male worker because of the gender pay gap.