Following the publication of analysis by the Trades Union Congress, which showed that black workers with degrees earn a quarter less than their white colleagues, enei chief executive Denise Keating comments.

These statistics have a shocking finding: the better educated a black worker is, the further behind their pay compared with their white colleagues. This is a clear sign of black workers being underemployed, for no other reason than a lack of racial and cultural affinity with recruiters. That the average black worker with A-Levels is paid 45p per hour less than the average white worker with only GCSEs is indefensible, and shows that that employers are not tackling racial biases, conscious or unconscious, in recruitment and progression processes.

The majority of FTSE100 companies still have all white boards, a figure which rose in 2015, and there are only 4 non-white FTSE100 CEOs. This lack of senior BAME role models is just one more way for front line recruiters to make excuses for not employing black workers at the same level as their equally qualified white counterparts.