The Scottish Government has launched a new strategy, ‘A Fairer Scotland for All: An Anti-Racist Employment Strategy’ outlining the steps it will take and how it will work with employers to help make Scotland’s workplaces more diverse, fair and inclusive.
The strategy will support employers to:
- improve their collection of workforce data, including reporting their pay gap, and take action on the findings
- take an anti-racist approach to remove barriers in their recruitment, retention and progression practices to improve representation of workers
- drive cultural, attitudinal and organisational change through building an understanding of the impact of institutional racism and the processes and practices in an organisation that lead to the unfair treatment of people on the basis of race
Labour market data and research shows that ethnic minorities are more likely to be paid less than their white counterparts, be underemployed or underrepresented at senior level roles, and experience workplace discrimination.
The new strategy will sit alongside the refreshed Fair Work Action Plan, which brings together the Scottish Government’s existing Fair Work, Gender Pay Gap and Disabled People’s Employment action plans.
Both have been developed following extensive consultation and engagement with the public, private and third sectors along with trade unions.
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