Unconscious bias
Employers should be required to publish ethnicity breakdown
UK businesses should publish a breakdown of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees, according to recommendations from the Chartered...
Liberal Democrat manifesto: guarantees for EU workers and stricter corporate governance
The Liberal Democrat Party’s official manifesto has been released today and includes a raft of proposals around employment rights, equality...
Male managers command less authority in “female” jobs
Customers afford less authority to male managers in jobs more typically associated with women, but the same cannot be said...
Four key actions to tackle a gender pay gap
New rules on gender pay gap reporting simply compel employers to publish details of their pay gap on an annual...
Eight ways to ensure diversity initiatives are fair
After a BBC radio presenter claimed he was sacked for being a white man, is positive discrimination a fair solution...
How to get it right in the generation game
Managers are too busy making generalisations to tap into the potential of older workers, according to a new policy paper...
Others should follow NHS focus on race equality
The NHS Equality and Diversity Council’s first report from the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) has shown that black...
Speaking my language: how accent impacts our opinion of others
Are you guilty of judging someone by their accent? This is just another form of unconscious bias, argues Snéha Khilay,...
How can the gender balance in engineering be improved?
Despite a raft of initiatives, there still aren’t enough women entering the engineering profession. Charlie Weatherhogg, HR director of infrastructure...
Personnel Today Awards 2015: HMRC shines in Diversity and Inclusion
HMRC impressed the judges and received the Award for Diversity and Inclusion at the Personnel Today Awards 2015. Here we...
Will name-blind recruitment stop race discrimination?
A number of big employers are using “name-blind recruitment”, or removing names from application forms and CVs in an effort...
David Cameron announces blind CV equality initiative
Private and public-sector employers have signed up to recruit graduates on a name-blind basis, the Prime Minister has announced.
The...
Recruitment advertising: making diversity your message
With employers under pressure to prove their commitment to diversity, how important is it to reflect this in their recruitment...
Gender inequality: still work to be done
While plans to make gender pay gap reporting mandatory in larger organisations will go some way to address male and...
Retaining older workers adds billions to economy, says report
A government report has suggested that keeping older people in work could add £55 billion per year to the UK...
