Welcome to Business Daily with me, Vichalas Sri Puthma.

In today's program, we've all probably felt at some point that we've been passed over unfairly for a promotion or a pay rise.

But what if that reason was because of the colour of your skin or the sound of your name?

They see that your name seems foreign.

It's less likely, regardless of your qualifications or grades,

that they're going to pass your CV through to the end employer.

In an increasingly multicultural world,

black and Asian people are still at a disadvantage relative to their white peers in the office.

It's being stereotyped, it's being excluded, it's actually constantly getting your name wrong, always being criticised and never being praised.

We explore why racial bias still persists in the world of work.

Yours is the quest that's just become.

It feels as if we've been speaking about racial discrimination at work for a long time.

And that's because we have been.

Studies into racial bias in Western countries have been conducted for decades

and the consistent conclusion has been that it exists.

A recent one of those studies by the British government

shows that 14% of the UK's working population are from a non-white background.

Yet they make up 10% of the workforce.

They also occupy just 6% of top management positions.

It's a similar picture in the US.

Research from Pew showed that black workers earn significantly less than white workers

despite having similar educational backgrounds.

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