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''Law - regulation - ethics.''
''Diversity and inclusion''.


Ethics washing is a derogatory term for the overstatement of an organisation's ethical concerns and actions, or those of a sector.
The ethnicity pay gap is defined by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) as the difference between the average hourly earnings of White British and other ethnic groups as a proportion of average hourly earnings of the White British group.


Potentially with the effect - or intention - of delaying effective law-making and external regulation of the sector.
The ONS has published figures based on newly reweighted earnings data from the existing Annual Population Survey.




For example, if the sector were to set up panels and similar bodies in relation to its ethics, and to successfully publicise these efforts, all of this might slow down the implementation of necessary laws and effective external regulation of the sector.
Ethnicity pay gap reporting by employers in the UK is not yet mandatory, although a number of larger employers have reported their ethnicity pay gap on a voluntary basis.


In other words - the argument goes - the issues and related protections for affected individuals and the public should be a matter of law, and not dependent on the ethical standards of the dominant actors in the market.
Gender pay gap reporting is already mandatory in the UK for larger organisations.




Examples might include the privacy of internet users.
In the United States, larger employers are required to report both of their ethnicity and gender pay gaps by 30 September 2019, in respect of 2017 and 2018.
 
The term ''ethics washing'' is derived from - and analogous with - greenwashing in relation to environmental concerns.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Diversity]]
* [[Greenwash]]
* [[Gender pay gap]]
* [[Law]]
* [[GMP equalisation]]
* [[Regulation]]
* [[Government Equalities Office]]
* [[Transparency]]
* [[Office for National Statistics]]
* [[Window-dressing]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]

Latest revision as of 15:38, 25 July 2019

Diversity and inclusion.

The ethnicity pay gap is defined by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) as the difference between the average hourly earnings of White British and other ethnic groups as a proportion of average hourly earnings of the White British group.

The ONS has published figures based on newly reweighted earnings data from the existing Annual Population Survey.


Ethnicity pay gap reporting by employers in the UK is not yet mandatory, although a number of larger employers have reported their ethnicity pay gap on a voluntary basis.

Gender pay gap reporting is already mandatory in the UK for larger organisations.


In the United States, larger employers are required to report both of their ethnicity and gender pay gaps by 30 September 2019, in respect of 2017 and 2018.


See also

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