{"id":17825,"date":"2019-04-12T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17825"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:51","slug":"jobs-market-discriminates-bme-workers-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17825","title":{"rendered":"Jobs market discriminates against BME workers, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black and minority ethnic (BME) workers are more than twice as likely to be stuck in insecure work as their white counterparts, new research reveals.<\/p>\n

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The TUC, which published the analysis at the start of its annual Black Workers Conference today (12 April), said the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jobs market \u00e2\u20ac\u015bis discriminating against BME<\/a> workers\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

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Calling for \u00e2\u20ac\u015bwidespread institutional racism\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 to be eradicated, the TUC said the government needs to implement gender pay gap-style legislation for BME workers.<\/p>\n

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TUC general secretary Frances O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Grady said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bFar too many BME workers are stuck in low-paid, insecure and temporary work.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis has a huge impact on their living standards and life chances. This problem isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t simply going to disappear over time.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need a co-ordinated approach led by government to confront inequality and racism<\/a> in the labour market \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and wider society.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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The TUC research, based on the Office for National Statistics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 2018 Labour Force Survey, shows that the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 3.9m BME workers are more than twice as likely as white workers to be in insecure or temporary work.<\/p>\n

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The introduction of a law requiring firms with more than 50 staff to report the ethnicity pay gap in their organisations is needed to help tackle the issue, the TUC said.<\/p>\n

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BME workers are also paid a staggering \u00c2\u01413.2bn a year less than their white colleagues performing the same roles, according to Resolution Foundation research released in December.<\/p>\n

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Unite national officer for equalities Harish Patel said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is a fact that in 21st<\/sup> Century Britain BME still workers face significant employment barriers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accessing stable and decently paid employment or receiving the same wage as their white counterparts doing the same job.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is dedicated to ensuring that discrimination and institutional racism and bias in all their forms are eradicated from the workplace, both by lobbying politicians to enact policies such as those put forward by the TUC<\/a> and by fighting for change in workplaces across the country.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis includes measures to tackle the under representation of BME workers at all levels, bargaining for ethnic monitoring at the workplace, making sure members have access to equality reps and educating on race equality.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Black and minority ethnic (BME) workers are more than twice as likely to be stuck in insecure work as their white counterparts, new research reveals.   The TUC, which published the analysis at the start of its annual Black Workers Conference today (12 April), said the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jobs market \u00e2\u20ac\u015bis discriminating against BME workers\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[379,242],"wps_subtitle":"BME workers more than twice as likely to be stuck in insecure work","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25357,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions\/25357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}