Guide for General Counsels: Insights into Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting
Aimed at General Counsels who advise Boards on a regular basis, this guide looks at the legal considerations behind ethnicity pay gap reporting, in particular the data protection and employment concerns, that can become a perceived barrier to publishing these statistics.
DEI Data Group: DEI Data Standard
In August 2020, the DEI Data Group commissioned a framework to monitor equity considerations in grantmaking, with a view to including the data in published grants information. This framework is not a judgement of organisations, it simply spells out the different categories that enable funders to collect data in a systematic manner to understand whether the reach of the funding and their funding practices are equitable. It will be used to inform funding strategies and specific funding strands/programmes, not individual funding decisions - except where it is explicitly a part of the fund criteria. The primary use will be for funders to monitor their grant programmes, but it is also anticipated that there will be wider use of a shared framework for sector analysis.
Ethnic Origin and Disability Data Collection in Europe: Measuring Inequality – Combating Discrimination
From The Open Society Foundation: This report seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice in relation to the collection of disability and ethnic origin data in the EU. The report notes that there is a widely held belief that the law prohibits any collection of sensitive data pertaining to disability and ethnic origin; however, equality data can be collected in compliance with the exemptions enumerated in Article 8 of Directive 95/46/EC.
Are you even trying to stop racism if you don’t collect data on race?
Most of the world’s wealthiest countries don’t collect any data on the racial or ethnic identity of their people. In many cases, it’s illegal. France doesn’t keep official statistics of how many Black residents it has, for example. Neither does Germany. Twenty of the 38 OECD countries collect no racial or ethnic identity data. These include some of the world’s wealthiest nations, like Japan, Germany, France, and Italy.
"France and Germany urged to rethink reluctance to gather ethnicity data"
Article from The Guardian reporting on how the racial discrimination debate had lead some leaders to push for updated surveys in France and Germany to help tackle injustices.
Statistics Canada Definition of "Population group of person"
From Statistics Canada: A definition of "Population group of person." "Population groups" are the groups used on questionnaires which collect data on the visible minority population for Employment Equity purposes. The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour".
Diversity and Inclusion in the Financial Sector: Working Together to Drive Change
This Discussion Paper (DP) is issued by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as well as the Bank of England (the Bank) in its capacity of supervising financial market infrastructure firms (FMI). They have published this DP to engage financial firms and other stakeholders in a discussion on how they can accelerate the pace of meaningful change and what role they can most usefully play to support this change. The DP reiterates why diversity and inclusion is important for our objectives, explores how to build on existing requirements to support and monitor progress in the UK financial sector. The regulators are working together to clarify their regulatory approach to diversity and inclusion in pursuit of our statutory objectives and having due regard to our Public Sector Equality Duty. This discussion will support their engagement with stakeholders and policy development, helping to determine which interventions could have the greatest impact.