BLACK and minority ethnic (BME) workers are far more likely to be trapped in temporary and insecure work, according to new TUC analysis published today at the start of its annual Black Workers Conference.

The union warned Britain’s labour market “is discriminating against BME workers” and called on the government to pass a gender pay gap-style law to stamp out “widespread institutional racism” in the jobs market.

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Far too many BME workers are stuck in low-paid, insecure and temporary work.