BLACK workers demanded today that ethnic pay gap reporting be made mandatory and that the TUC sign up to the commitments of the Race at Work Charter.

Daniel Ay Leb from the Community union highlighted a TUC survey showing that one in six black workers are likely to be trapped in insecure work as evidence that greater protection is needed.

Mr Leb welcomed the government’s commitment to make ethnicity pay gap reporting mandatory for employers with more than 250 staff, but he said that much more needed to be done to tackle inequality and discrimination in the workplace.