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First ever Ethnicity Pay Gap Day event held to raise awareness

BRITAIN staged its first ever Ethnicity Pay Gap Day event today as official statistics revealed a shocking gap in levels of pay based on ethnicity.

The difference in pay between ethnic minority groups and white workers in London is 23.8 per cent, according to reports from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

In Yorkshire and the Humber 12.7 per cent, in Scotland 10.3 per cent, while Wales has Britain’s lowest ethnicity pay gap of 1.3 per cent.

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