On 1 June, the UK business of French food services group Sodexo published – for the very first time and despite the pandemic – its ethnicity pay gap for the year 2020. According to the firm’s pay report, the hourly earnings of its employees in the UK and Ireland of BAME (Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnic) backgrounds are 5% lower on average than those of its white employees. This is a gap that Sodexo is hopeful of reducing through a policy of transparency.
In recognition of the disparities between different ethnic groups in society and in order to make progress on equality, Sodexo has for the first time published a report detailing the differences in pay between those groups. Raj Jones, head of diversity and inclusion at Sodexo’s business in the UK and Ireland, tells Planet Labor: “We recognise that publishing the combined pay data for these groups may hide disparities between the different groups. We therefore avoid the use of the term BAME wher
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