BLACK workers have condemned the “disgraceful” levels of in-work poverty that ethnic minority workers face compared with their white colleagues.

A motion unanimously carried at the TUC Black Workers Conference on Saturday stated that, although the number of BME in employment has grown by 3.2 per cent since 2010,  the work has often not been financially worthwhile and high levels of workplace inequality persists.

Though millions of people suffer from in-work poverty in general, the problem is magnified with black workers. Research produced by the TUC last year shows that black workers earn 10 per cent less than their white colleagues.