A radical proposal to ban names from job applications to prevent discrimination – backed in principle by the CIPD – has been slammed by HR chiefs as "bureaucratic" and "unworkable". Lynne Featherstone , Liberal Democrat MP and party spokes  More...
15 May 2009 16:03

Job applications should be anonymous so employers don't "subliminally" discriminate based on gender, race or age, a Liberal Democrat MP said. Proposing an amendment to the Equality Bill in Parliament this week, Lynne Featherstone, the Lib Dem youth  More...
13 May 2009 15:36

The Metropolitan Police HR chief has vowed not to act on claims of racism at an employment tribunal before a ruling is handed down. On Monday, Muslim catering manager Hasanali Khoja, 60, told the tribunal that when he called a meeting to discuss his  More...
13 May 2009 10:32

A Metropolitan Police HR manager was accused of "pulling faces and making racist gestures" during a meeting with a Muslim catering manager called because he refused to cook bacon, an employment tribunal was told yesterday. Hasanali Khoja, 60, said w  More...
12 May 2009 10:56

A black Royal Navy officer has lost his claim for racial discrimination after being nicknamed 'Robert Mugabe' by his former colleagues. Andrew Antrobus, 48, accused the service of racism alleging jealous colleagues had resorted to taunts after he was a  More...
08 May 2009 10:22

Are some equalities more equal than others? Equality laws may have created a pecking order of competing equalities where clashes can occur  More...
05 May 2009 14:06

Quotas for female and ethnic minority judges may be brought in to improve diversity across the judiciary, a government adviser has claimed. Baroness Julia Neuberger, a Liberal Democrat peer, has been appointed by the government to chair a panel of ad  More...
29 April 2009 11:43

A person of strong religious faith has asked me, the HR manager, if she can be moved from a workstation she shares with a gay man. That person openly discusses his lifestyle and relationship with another man, and the religious person says she finds such  More...
23 April 2009 16:40

A former HR boss at Network Rail has received £500,000 in an out-of-court settlement after she accused a senior executive of sex and racial discrimination. Vicky Lydford, the rail giant's former head of HR (national functions), received the offer on   More...
20 April 2009 10:09

Fourteen council staff have been suspended ahead of claims they sent one another racist e-mails, it emerged yesterday. Lancashire County Council has suspended the employees, who work in several different departments, ahead of disciplinary proceedings  More...
14 April 2009 09:33

An Asian council worker has been awarded £122,000 after a racial discrimination tribunal heard she was forced to eat alone and refused holiday requests. Rosene Railton told the tribunal her boss at Northumberland County Council repeatedly victim  More...
07 April 2009 09:55

Equalities minister Harriet Harman's Equality Bill will, if enacted, extend the law on direct discrimination to include discrimination by association and perception to disability, sex, gender reassignment and age in both the employment field and be  More...
03 April 2009 12:00

The government has launched a recruitment campaign targeting ethnic minorities and women to help the Fire Service reach its new equality targets. Earlier this month the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) agreed to targets demanding that by 2013, 1  More...
26 March 2009 09:56

Merseyside Police has sacked a police officer whose name appeared on the BNP membership list . PC Steve Bettley has been suspended from duty since the publication of the 12,000 strong list last November, and was fired following an investigation   More...
23 March 2009 14:03

Weekly dilemma.racist remarks outside work I work in HR and live in the same village as one of my colleagues. Over the weekend I overheard him making...  More...
18 March 2009 16:24

ITV bosses are at the centre of a bullying scandal after it was claimed today that six staff have been paid nearly £400,000 in settlements over racist, sexist and inappropriate remarks. It has emerged that a series of investigations have taken place   More...
18 March 2009 15:05

A British Airways (BA) pilot who blew the whistle on what he called a "canteen culture of racism" among fellow pilots has lost a victimisation claim at tribunal. Doug Maughan has been ordered to pay £4,400 towards BA's legal fees because his case wa  More...
18 March 2009 12:18

Polish trade unions are campaigning for 'Polish jobs for Polish workers', since the credit crunch has led to a decline in jobs. Polish trade unions want to see stricter laws on the number of foreigners working in their country, as Poles who have li  More...
17 March 2009 11:29

Recruitment agencies have been caught operating an 'immigrants only' policy in one major city, a report out today has revealed. A study of migrant workers in Bristol and Hull by research organisation Centre for Cities found that in Hull, migrants a  More...
16 March 2009 09:05

A black Royal Navy officer is claiming he suffered racial discrimination after being nicknamed "Robert Mugabe", an employment tribunal heard yesterday. Andrew Antrobus, 48, told the court he was introduced as "Andy aka Robert Mugabe" at important me  More...
11 March 2009 11:02