Diversity and Equality

RNIB says investing in disabled reaps rewards

Keeping a newly disabled person in employment has a cost benefit of at least 2.5 times an employer's investment.


Created on: 14/10/2011 08:00

Sticks n’ stones…

Can bellowing a nickname across an office constitute race discrimination? Or is it just banter or political correctness gone mad?


Created on: 24/09/2011 14:00

A hundred years to gender pay parity?

Responding to a survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI*) that said the pay gap between men and women in the private sector was getting wider and could take a century to close.


Created on: 12/09/2011 09:00

Board gender quotas ignored by FTSE 100

The majority of FTSE 100 companies have ignored recommendations made by Lord Davies to voluntarily increase female board representation to 25 per cent by 2015.


Created on: 09/09/2011 09:00

Women urged to plan ahead

Pay for women was £21,969 compared with men at £21,367.


Created on: 05/09/2011 09:00

Lord Davies report imminent

The six month deadline from Lord Davies report imminent. Some progress but will it be enough to prevent EU intervention?


Created on: 11/08/2011 09:00

One million women unemployed

One million women unemployed, a quarter unemployed long-term More than one-in-four women unemployed in the UK have been out of work for more than a year,


Created on: 09/08/2011 14:07

Female FTSE directors just 14 percent

As the six month Davies Committee review looms, a group of leading headhunting firms issued a voluntary code of conduct in response to the Lord Davies report on women on executive boards published ...


Created on: 01/08/2011 09:00

Tech women don’t rate HR

Four years from the last Women in Technology Survey, a new report has revealed that women are still facing less support from HR departments than from line managers and colleagues


Created on: 17/06/2011 09:00

"No" to positive discrimination

Sixty-five percent of head-hunters say firms shouldn’t discriminate positively towards appointing women to boards.


Created on: 26/05/2011 09:00