Reducing the BAME pay gap

In 2016 the government asked Baroness McGregor-Smith to examine the barriers faced by people from ethnic minorities in employment. One of the recommendations from her report Race in the Workplace was that the government should legislate for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay data.

McGregor-Smith said: “No employer can honestly say they are improving the ethnic diversity of their workforce unless they know their starting point and can monitor their success over time”.

The government’s response was that they expected businesses to lead in taking this forward voluntarily, mirroring their original approach to gender pay.

Increasing the diversity of ITN isn’t just the right thing to do, it is a major business priority. We simply must reflect the face of modern Britain if we are to remain both distinctive and relevant to our audiences in the long term. Part of that journey is about being transparent about where we are now.

Integrity and transparency is core to ITN’s values and this is why we took the decision to be one of the first media organisations to publish its BAME pay gap.

We have an average BAME pay gap of 16.1% and an average bonus gap of…