Race Inequality in the Workforce: In the coronavirus economy

Operation Black Vote is pleased once again to support and add value to the research analysis by the Carnegie Trust. Their focus on race inequality in the workforce predates Covid and this wealth of information that they already have has given them a strong platform to help us all make sense of how and why Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities are being particularly badly hit by this disease in regards to work, and health, including mental health.

The report’s findings that Black people were nearly five times more likely to be tested for Covid-19 screams at me that on a daily basis we are overly exposed to this deadly disease, mainly, but not exclusively through work.

Having partnered Carnegie Trust earlier this year with the first report: Race Equality in the Workforce, we were delighted to be asked to both review their work, and write the foreword.

This report is designed to inform, and guide: Government both local and national along with other statutory agencies; and big business to a policy pathway that will not only mitigate BAME communities being disproportionately affected again by Covid in regards to health and jobs, but also to seize the opportunity to fundamentally overhaul practices and systems that persistently deliver unequal outcomes for BAME communities.

This is a must read document.

I feel honoured to have writen the foreword to this important report.

Simon Woolley

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