The EHRC has published the results of research which shows that ethnic minority and disabled people’s careers are at risk because employers are failing to collect meaningful data on representation in the workforce. Whilst 77% of employers say that workforce diversity is a priority: just 44% record or collect data on whether employees are disabled or not; only 36% record or collect data on employee ethnicity; merely 23% collect data on staff pay and progression that can be broken down by ethnicity and disabled and non-disabled staff; and, only 3% of organisations actually analyse this data to explore differences in pay and progression between different ethnicities and disabled and non-disabled staff. The EHRC is calling for mandatory reporting for organisations with over 250 employees.

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