Nearly four years after consulting on the topic, the Government has finally published guidance on ethnicity pay gap reporting, albeit on a voluntary basis. In addition to making gender pay gap reporting compulsory from April 2017 (for employers of 250 or more people), the Government had also originally intended to mandate ethnicity pay gap reporting. Its consultation, conducted in the winter of 2018/19, attracted 321 responses; however, further progress subsequently stalled: the Government’s response to the consultation has yet to be published and any formal commitments in this regard were absent from the Conservatives’ 2019 election manifesto.
