The UK’s inequality watchdog has been slammed after admitting that it pays male workers more than females and white employees more than those from ethnic minority backgrounds.
The situation came to light just over two years after the Equality and Human Rights Commission had vowed to stamp out pay discrimination among its own workers – which means that it appears to be breaching its own guidelines.
According to payroll figures revealed to The Sun following a Freedom of Information request, the average woman working at the quango, which is funded to the tune of £53 million a year, receives £28,846 per annum, while men are paid an additional £1,154.
The salary of the average white worker, on the other hand, is £33,164 per annum, the equivalent of 6% higher than black or ethnic minority colleagues working in the same office.
A spokeman at the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “It’s absurd that this unaccountable quango can’t even be run in a manner that abides by its own mission statements.”
But the EHRC attested that it had cut its pay gap over recent years and planned to undertake an equal pay review over the year ahead.
