- Since the publication of a consultation in October 2018, no concrete steps have been taken to progress mandatory ethnicity pay reporting.
- Recent events will have increased the pressure on the government to act.
Introducing mandatory ethnicity pay reporting was one of the recommendations of the McGregor-Smith review, which reported in 2017 ((https://bit.ly/3jgxPK7). The government’s initial reaction was to encourage such reporting on a voluntary basis. However, following a further review in 2018 ( https://bit.ly/3hyebc3), which revealed that little progress had been made on this and other recommendations over the previous year, the government appears to have been persuaded to move to mandatory reporting.
In October 2018 it published a consultation paper which explored a number of options for introducing the necessary legislation ( https://bit.ly/2YAbQpR). The consultation closed in January 2019. A response has not yet been published.
Recent developments
The latest statement of the government’s position is set out in a response to an online petition calling for the government to introduce mandatory
