At the start of 2021, we wait with interest to receive the Government’s response to the consultation on proposals for a mandatory approach to ethnicity pay gap reporting, which is along similar lines to the existing gender pay gap reporting and which would potentially require employers to publish their workforce data, broken down by ethnicity and pay band.

A short poem about Employment law in 2020 Hmmm what rhymes with furlough......

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