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    Avoid salary history questions in recruitment, guide urges

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Apr 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Apr 2022

    New REC and Fawcett Society guidance says organisations should not ask salary history questions during job interviews.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    Addressing bias: How to boost progress in diversity and inclusion

    by Neil Armstrong 22 Mar 2022
    by Neil Armstrong 22 Mar 2022

    Addressing bias is difficult to do in practice. Neil Armstrong looks at the role of data-driven recruitment in helping employers make real progress.

    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Equal pay

    Ban salary history questions: Andrew Bazeley talks to Oven-Ready HR

    by Chris Taylor 18 Mar 2022
    by Chris Taylor 18 Mar 2022

    The Fawcett Society's Andrew Bazeley talks to Chris Taylor about why salary history questions should be banned in the recruitment process

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    • Indirect discrimination
    • Ethnicity pay gap

    Ethnicity pay gap reporting will not be mandatory

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2022

    The government says it will ‘help’ organisations tackle the ethnicity pay gap but will not make it mandatory.

    • Candidate experience
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Entrepreneurs: men seen as less employable than women by recruiters

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Mar 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Mar 2022

    Male business founders viewed as too independent-minded and non-compliant compared with female candidates.

    • Corporate governance
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Government urged to drop gendered word ‘chairman’

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Mar 2022

    Leading business groups call for the archaic word to be dropped if it is serious about promoting women in business.

    • Age discrimination
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Is the law confusing around positive action and diversity in the private sector?

    by Ranjit Dhindsa 25 Feb 2022
    by Ranjit Dhindsa 25 Feb 2022

    Diversity in the workplace is unanimously agreed to be a good thing, but the law governing routes to achieving this is less favourably regarded.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Discrimination

    Ethnic minorities ‘as likely to be in top roles’ as white counterparts in UK

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Feb 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Feb 2022

    Right-leaning think-tank Civitas issues race report aimed at ‘upholding British institutions and identity and building on success'.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Obesity

    Weight bias: How employers can address negative attitudes

    by Dr Stuart W. Flint and Stuart Sherman 3 Feb 2022
    by Dr Stuart W. Flint and Stuart Sherman 3 Feb 2022

    Negative attitudes surrounding weight can have a significant effect on employee engagement and inclusion, and may even result in a...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    How can we stop ‘diversity fatigue’?

    by Corine Sheratte 17 Jan 2022
    by Corine Sheratte 17 Jan 2022

    Faced with a raft of initiatives and discouragingly slow progress, it’s easy to become sceptical about diversity and inclusion activities.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Hybrid working
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Ellie Simmonds: Be intrigued to learn how to support disabled employees

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Nov 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Nov 2021

    Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds has encouraged organisations to have open conversations with employees and job candidates who have disabilities...

    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Equal Pay Day: stop asking candidates for their salary history

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Nov 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Nov 2021

    Asking about past salaries contributes to the gender pay gap, campaigners warn.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Why unconscious bias training still has value

    by David Marsden Pearson 16 Nov 2021
    by David Marsden Pearson 16 Nov 2021

    The effectiveness of unconscious bias training is often questioned, but, if done in the right way, it can help to...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Discipline
    • Discipline and grievances

    Black trainee who had bias complaint ‘shut down’ was victimised by manager

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Nov 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Nov 2021

    A black trainee at AIG Asset Management was victimised by a manager who ‘shut down’ a conversation when the claimant...

    • Social mobility
    • Disability discrimination
    • Gender

    Law firm salaries’ relationship with diversity revealed

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2021

    A new study of law firms has revealed a degree of progress in diversity and a more complex pattern of identity .

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