Ethnicity Pay Gap Day will return on 8 January 2023 in a bid to urge UK organisations to create fairer workplaces.
The #EthnicityPayGap Campaign was established in 2018 to raise awareness of the issues relating to the Ethnicity Pay Gap and to encourage the government to make Ethnicity Pay Gap report mandatory.
“The #EthnicityPayGap Campaign is a beacon to those who wish to make a positive change,” according to the Dianne Greyson, Founder of #EthnicityPayGap campaign and Ethnicity Pay Gap Day.
TACKLING GLARING INEQUALITY
Almost half of UK’s corporate decision makers believe their company has an ethnicity pay gap, according to research carried out earlier this year. Another report backed this finding, by showing that the number of UK organisations reporting on their ethnicity pay gap had fallen by 50% in just a year.
Earlier this year, UK MPs urged the government to force big businesses to report their ethnicity pay gaps in a bid to tackle glaring inequality. However, despite calls to tackle these gaps, the UK Government has yet to take much-needed action.
TIME FOR ACTION
Greyson, also Director of Equilibrium Mediation Consulting, is advising companies “not to wait for Government legislation to do the right thing”. Greyson, who launched the #EthnicityPayGap campaign three years ago to push the government to take action on mandatory pay gap reporting, launched the first Ethnicity Pay Gap Day this year (on 8th January 2021) to promote a call to action, as reported. “For change to happen, we must all play a part,” pointed out Greyson. She urges individuals and businesses to “join the campaign and make the Ethnicity Pay Gap a thing of the past”.
It’s time for UK leaders and businesses to support the Ethnicity Pay Gay Day campaign on 8th January 2023, and hold their organisations to account. Click here for more information on how to get involved.
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