Pay Gap In The Workplace Essay

UK Workplace: How Level a Playing field?
The media has been dominated by white, middle/upper class men defending themselves in-regard to the pay gap scandal. They have become increasing successful in belittling the major injustice. We need to put the focus back on the gap rather than on the elite few trying to hang on to the wealth they have been granted.
Why do UK FTSE 100 CEO's make more in two-and-a-half days than employees earn in a year? Why do women earn less than men? Why do individuals from the working-class face a pay deficit? Why does wage vary with unrelated and unchangeable characteristics? Because bias has taken the reigns. The UK hosts one of the widest pay gaps compared with international peers. Unfairness based on gender is a well-known issue, but, unfairness elsewhere poses a threat to the ideal of a fair working environment. Women in the UK earn almost 20% less than male colleagues. BAME (black, Asian, minority-ethnic) university graduates receive just shy of a quarter less than white counterparts. "Fat cat CEO's", of FTSE 100 companies earn 120 times as much as the average full-time salary. Individuals from working-class backgrounds in professional jobs earn around £7000 less per annum than those from more privileged backgrounds. This displays our

Research by the social mobility commission has unearthed a hidden, "class pay gap". The report finds that British professions stay dominated by those with professional backgrounds, however, even when individuals from working-class backgrounds break into the professional world we reward them with less pay. How can this be fair? Someone who has had to work harder to get to the same position faces earnings almost 20% less in wages. These figures refer to a white male – women and ethnic minorities face a, “double” disadvantage. The same report finds the largest pay gaps exist in finance, medicine and IT, regarded as three of the most elite