Gender pay gap reporting for large employers was introduced in 2017. The Government’s view is that this has improved transparency and provided employers with important information about how to address inequalities.
It intends to introduce mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and is now consulting on how to do this.
The consultation period ends on 10 June 2025.
The aim is to adopt a similar reporting framework used for gender pay. Accordingly, many proposals will be familiar to large employers, that is, those with 250 or more employees. However, it is accepted that ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting will be more complex. This is because of the large number of ethnicities in the workforce and the fact that many organisations do not have much information about employee ethnicity.
Most ethnic minority groups earn, on average, less than their white British peers, and disabled people have, on average, lower incomes than non-disabled people. Introducing mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting will expose any pay gaps and enable organisations to consider why such pay gaps exist and how to tackle them.
What does the consultation paper cover?
Pay gap calculations
As with gender pay gap reporting, it is proposed that employers would report on mean and median differences in average hourly pay and bonus pay, the percentage of employees receiving bonus pay and the percentage of employees in four equally-sized groups, ranked from highest to lowest hourly pay. Significantly, the Government also proposes to make it mandatory for employers to report on:
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