The mere mention of tribunal claims can send a shiver down employers' spines. And, with mistakes around diversity sometimes being costly, L&D has a major role to play in making sure people get it right. According to Acas, there were 84,039 tribu  More...
04 March 2008 10:43

In the ongoing struggle to reach the top in the male-centric workplace, women's networks are helping them break new ground, as Tara Craig reports. Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard (HP) brought together almost 140 women from 24 countries. They spent  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

The BBC's people chief has admitted the corporation needs to do more on improving diversity as it launched a renewed drive. Steve Kelly said that from May the broadcaster would spend £750,000 on its biggest project to fill more top positions with eth  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

HR news and analysis including: Features editor Jo Faragher interviews HR directors on the future of talent management, how it can be measured and where its future lies A breakdown of the new illegal working and h  More...
29 February 2008 16:14

The police HR chief embroiled in a bitter employment tribunal, which ruled his force was racist for repeatedly rejecting a Sikh officer has insisted he did not discriminate. PC Sangram Singh-Bhacker, an Asian officer living in Manchester, had applied  More...
29 February 2008 09:27

The BBC is to launch its biggest drive to fill more top positions with ethnic minority and disabled staff, Personnel Today understands. In an internal article to employees, Steve Kelly, director of BBC people, said the BBC would undertake an "amb  More...
27 February 2008 09:32

Findings from a National Audit Office report reveal there is still a long way to go to bridge the ethnic minority employment gap. The ethnic minority employment gap remains stubbornly persistent, despite ongoing government attention and millions of  More...
18 February 2008 11:00

Royal Mail has signed a deal with the government to help make it easier for the organisation to employ disabled people. The Access to Work initiative currently helps thousands of workers and their employers to overcome barriers resulting from disa  More...
18 February 2008 11:00

Redeployment procedures need to be adjusted to accommodate the requirements of the DDA. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) is now comfortably into its second decade, but for employers and employees alike, there remain certain grey areas abo  More...
18 February 2008 10:00

Over-zealous employers are flouting anti-discrimination laws in their bid to promote diversity and equality, a report by a leading law firm has revealed. The perils of anti-discrimination law , study by Nabarro uncovered stark contradictions betwe  More...
15 February 2008 08:37

A new service has been launched to help local authorities boost their levels of diversity awareness. The government's Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) is to provide peer reviews to help councils meet level three of the Equality Standard  More...
14 February 2008 10:10

All-black shortlists, currently under consideration to increase the number of ethnic minority MPs, will not be allowed for UK businesses, the Cabinet Office has warned. Women and equalities minister Harriet Harman commissioned a report from lobby   More...
11 February 2008 13:32

MPs have slammed the government's Discrimination Law Review for failing to adequately address pitfalls in diversity law and provide no real solution to the gender pay gap. The Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee has today published   More...
09 February 2008 08:00

Employers will need to tighten up discrimination and flexible working policies following a landmark disability decision, which is almost certain to give rise to new rights for millions of workers, legal experts have warned. An advocate-general at the  More...
04 February 2008 08:01

Investors in People (IIP) has strongly denied that a 'training apartheid' exists at organisations accredited with its much-heralded award. The IIP standard is seen as a benchmark of how well companies manage and develop their employees. More than   More...
28 January 2008 11:35

Express coach service Stagecoach has strongly denied any homophobia within the group and defended its commitment to equal opportunities and diversity, following accusations of a lack of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) s  More...
25 January 2008 10:48

Minority groups lose out on training in workplaces that have won the Investors in People (IIP) training award, new research suggests. A study of almost 15,000 people by Nottingham University Business School found that women, ethnic minorities, temps,  More...
24 January 2008 09:23

A transsexual truck driver was ridiculed and forced out of her job when she started dressing as a woman, an employment tribunal heard. Vikki-Marie Gaynor , who was born a man and formally called Mike, claimed bosses at delivery firm Exel Europe unfa  More...
23 January 2008 10:47

Rachel Krys has been appointed director of the Employers Forum on Age (EFA), replacing the long-serving Sam Mercer. Mercer has moved on to take up a new role at membership organisation Business in the Community after seven years leading the campaign  More...
18 January 2008 08:02

Sunderland City Council has launched an online training course to ensure that its 14,500 staff are up to speed with diversity and equality issues, in line with obligations under the Equality Standard for Local Government. Over the next 18 m  More...
17 January 2008 11:26