'Black graduates paid less per hour than white people,' says trade union

Recently graduated black workers are paid up to a quarter less per hour than their white counterparts, according to a report.

Research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) revealed there was a 23 per cent gap in hourly pay on average between black and white university graduates.

The pay gap fell to 14 per cent for those with A-levels and 11 per cent for people with GCSEs.

It comes after David Cameron criticised Oxford and Cambridge universities over inequality in the number of ethnic minority students they took on.

The TUC analysed figures from the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey and found black workers with a degree were paid £4.30 per hour less on average than white graduates.

TUC general Secretary Frances O'Grady told the Independent: "These are very worrying findings. Black and Asian people face a massive pay gap, even if they have a degree.

"This is not about education, but about the systemic disadvantages ethnic minority workers face in the UK."

The union called on the Government to tackle pay 'discrimination'.