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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Georgina Quach

Make UK employers report ethnicity pay gap, MPs tell ministers

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The cross-party group of MPs said publishing data on pay is ‘first step’ to addressing disparities. Photograph: FS Productions/Getty Images/Tetra images RF

MPs have urged the government to introduce mandatory reporting of the pay gap between staff of different ethnicities, saying there is no excuse for failing to tackle racial inequality in UK workplaces.

Large companies should be required by law to publish data on employee salaries, following the framework already in place for gender, the House of Commons women and equalities committee (WEC) said in a report published on Tuesday.

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