Overview
- The Ethnicity Pay Gap Steering Committee wrote to equalities minister Seema Malhotra condemning a six-month delay since the consultation closed in June 2025 without legislation.
- The letter questions whether concern over Nigel Farage’s Reform is influencing the pause, with The Independent citing a More in Common poll putting Reform at 31 percent.
- New People Like Us/Censuswide research reports that over half of workers want a government pledge to mandate ethnicity pay gap reporting within a year.
- The survey finds many ethnic minority employees have uncovered higher pay for comparable roles held by colleagues from different backgrounds, with some receiving raises after challenging disparities and others reporting repercussions.
- Ethnicity pay gap reporting remains voluntary unlike gender reporting, as campaigners tout economic gains of closing gaps and experts urge employers to build data ahead of February’s Ethnicity Pay Gap Summit where Malhotra is due to speak.