A JOINT call for the government to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting was issued today by the TUC, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

In a letter to Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the three organisations say that the move would “transform our understanding of race inequality at work and, most importantly, drive action to tackle it where we find it.”

Signed by TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady, CBI director general Tony Danker and EHRC chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner, the letter was sent in response to recent recommendations made by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (Cred).