Social mobility

Decision to cut Level 7 apprenticeship levy funding for those aged over 21 will cost employers around £214m in additional training costs.

West London will soon become the first of 47 areas across England and Wales to take part in the scheme helping disabled people and those with health conditions and additional support needs back into work.

Rob Moss examines eight potential new equality laws, including race and disability equal pay rules and dual discrimination claims.

With mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting on the horizon for large employers, Kavitha Sivasubramaniam looks at the potential impact of its introduction and what it could mean for pay equity

The Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority have written to Treasury Committee MPs to state they will retain existing framework rather than apply new DEI measures.

Ethnic minority graduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds are 45% less likely to be offered an entry-level professional role than more advantaged white applicants.

Zurich UK publishes its social mobility pay data, the first insurance company and one of just a handful of companies in the UK to do so.

Tesco expands its Stronger Starts apprenticeship programme, introducing five times more places for young people in 2025.

Most employers support a crackdown on unpaid or underpaid internships as new research suggests a growing class divide in accessing schemes.

Sarah Atkinson explains why it's about time employers and HR professionals do something about social mobility at work

City employers continue to invest in diversity, equity and inclusion despite having to cut costs in the past year, according...

Sanofi’s pioneering global scholarship programme caught the eye of the Personnel Today Awards judges. 

Working-class professional are effectively no longer being paid for their work from today until the end of the year because of the class pay gap.

There has been an increase in technology and creative sector employers on the Social Mobility Index for 2024.

The government has announced the launch of the Office for Equality and Opportunity, which will oversee equality policy and legislation...