diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPadWorkload.cpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPadWorkload.cpp
index 5e59d83..c4b9dae 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPadWorkload.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefPadWorkload.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 }
 
 template class RefPadWorkload<DataType::Float32>;
+template class RefPadWorkload<DataType::Float16>;
 template class RefPadWorkload<DataType::QuantisedAsymm8>;
 template class RefPadWorkload<DataType::QuantisedSymm16>;