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CEMVO Scotland In-work Poverty and Ethnicity Research

  • Submitted by: Mary Fee, West Scotland, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2012
  • Motion reference: S4M-02340

That the Parliament notes that the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations (CEMVO) Scotland recently held an event, Is It Possible to Work and Still Be Poor?, which launched the research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on in-work poverty and ethnicity; is concerned that there is a lack of information held by all levels of government on ethnicity in the workplace, such as recruitment, retention and progression; is further concerned at the link between in-work poverty and child poverty, particularly in black and ethnic minority (BME) communities; calls on employers to look at how integration of members of BME communities in workplaces affects recruitment, retention and progressions, and requests that the Scottish Government look to re-assess how the Labour Force Survey in Scotland is carried out in order to include a greater sample that includes representation of BME workers.


Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Claudia Beamish, Neil Bibby, Sarah Boyack, Linda Fabiani, Rhoda Grant, Iain Gray, Hugh Henry, Jamie Hepburn, Jim Hume, Richard Lyle, Hanzala Malik, Margaret McDougall, Anne McTaggart, John Pentland, Richard Simpson, John Wilson