Ethnic pay gap reporting
The People Like Us mission is to help foster a fairer workplace through equitable pay. We feel passionately about addressing pay gaps in our industries and beyond. We're asking the government to reconsider making ethnicity pay gap reporting mandatory for companies (please take a moment to sign this petition). It will truly create huge strides in making a fairer and more equal society.
In the meanwhile, we are also asking all HR leads, payroll professionals, CEOs and business leaders to measure their pay gaps using this free tool. If this is you, you can download the free kit below. It's a simple exercise that will help you ascertain any gaps in the organisation and help foster equality in companies of any size. In 2021, we challenged the communications industry to share their pay gap data in partnership with our friends at PR Week. While the findings were somewhat stark, it was incredibly important for the industry to identify the scale of the issue before we go about addressing it together. We've created a free toolkit for organisations to measure their own pay gap. You can download this simple form here that will give you instructions on how to identify pay gaps in your organisation.
Who are we?
We're two brothers - Sheeraz Gulsher and Darain Faraz – who've been working in the comms field for several years. But People Like Us is way bigger than the pair of us. It's about breaking down barriers and creating foundations for genuine inclusion in the workplace.
What do we do?
Well, we do a lot. We hold quarterly events to shine a spotlight on people from underrepresented backgrounds. Whether you're looking for a job, or just want to meet like-minded industry pros, we're offering you a platform for professional and personal growth. We also support professionals behind-the-scenes with tailored solutions on a range of career related challenges. This includes navigating tricky conversations in the workplace, finding mentors, LinkedIn/CV-shaping and, more broadly, advising organisations on inclusivity.
We also work with other interested parties on substantial workplace investigations focusing on inequity and inclusion. In 2021, we teamed up with PR Week to investigate pay disparities across gender and ethnicity in the comms industry. We're doing this again in 2022. Our research has discovered that the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected people from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and minoritized ethnic backgrounds at all levels. They had to take bigger pay cuts and 42% felt like their career prospects suffered. As we move into a new type of economy, what steps are your companies doing to change things? We've created a free toolkit for companies of all sizes to measure their own pay gaps with the overall ambition of making race pay gap reporting mandatory for companies in the UK in the same way it is for gender.
So what's involved?
We want to do a bit more than fix these issues - we also want to have fun doing it.
So come play with us. Sign up to be one of the 10 people chosen to speak at our gatherings who know they've done something worth shouting about and do that for three minutes. The deadline's tight but we know your stories are powerful.
Sign up for our tool kit, partner up with us if you really are committed to change, get us on board to understand how things can become better. Get in touch if you want to be a speaker, find a mentor, sponsor us, lend a hand or even hold your own People Like Us event and use our model in your industry. We want to hear from you.
Our comms worlds need to reflect society, and we know that with more diverse faces comes more diverse thinking – and an ability to create stronger work that connects with broader audiences, as well as leading to open doors for those who don't always get that. -Darain and Sheeraz.
