Clinical Excellence Award (CEA): Locally a BME consultant makes 24.5% less than a White consultant, compared with national awards which is only 5.4% less. Percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number, so some totals may not add up to 100%. Not included in the data For example, any employer in the Lake District can expect 98% of its candidate pool to be White. An employer there with 300 staff could then expect to have on average just 6 ethnic minority employees. Mehrabi.N, Morsatter. F, et al., (2019), ‘A survey on bias and fairness in machine learning’ Available at: arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09635 ↩

According to the Race in the workplace: The McGregor-Smith review, when subjected to CV testing private sector employers showed a discrimination rate of 35% compared with 4% for the public sector. ↩

Everyday racism at work

being made to feel uncomfortable at work due to, for example, people using stereotypes or commenting on their appearance (26 per cent)

The bank has apologised to customers and said it is working to restore mobile and online banking as a “matter of urgency”. Research shows this is predominantly due to businesses’ credit and financial characteristics being at odds with the market standard approaches that are used to make credit decisions, when applied equally to all firms. ↩ Percentages have been rounded to 1 decimal point. This means some totals may not add up to 100%. Not included in the data Any comparison between the median of 294 employees with the median of 6 employees will be meaningless and is likely to change considerably just from adding or subtracting one ethnic minority employee.In terms of everyday racism, BME workers were asked to select all types of harassment that they have experienced at work in the past five years. Evidence submitted to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities call for evidence, Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) ↩ If an employer is in an area with a low ethnic minority population there may not be a diverse local candidate pool for firms to employ from. The 2011 Census data shows that of the 650 constituencies in the UK, 437 are over 90% White, [footnote 43] so many employers around the country simply do not have enough ethnic minorities for the recording sample to be valid. a list of recommended actions – tailored to the organisation, specifically designed to increase overall inclusion and employee well-being