Equality, diversity and human rights

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• Date:

  21 September 2020

  Type:

  News

  Stonewall announces top global employers for LGBT equality

  Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality charity Stonewall has announced its Top Global Employers for 2020.

• Date:

  8 September 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Diversity: What does an LGBT-inclusive leader look like?

  Sanjay Sood-Smith, executive director of workplace and community programmes at LGBT equality charity Stonewall, gives some tips on being an LGBT-inclusive leader.

• Type:

  Law reports

  Cases on appeal

  Updated to reflect that the Supreme Court is due to hear the appeal in Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew and others on 23 and 24 June 2021.

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  Coming soon to XpertHR

  Updated to include details of the annual pay review, and a diversity and inclusion commentary on what the Black Lives Matter and #metoo movements mean to HR.

• Date:

  10 August 2020

  Type:

  News

  Covid-19 job losses disproportionately hit ethnic minorities

  People from ethnic minorities in the UK have been hit disproportionately by job losses and reduced hours during the Covid-19 crisis.

• Date:

  28 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  Four in five senior applicants in financial services are men

  Women made up just 21% of employees being put forward for senior roles at financial services firms last year, compared to 79% who were men, according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority.

• Date:

  28 July 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Lack of women in top roles sees leading firms miss out on profits

  FTSE 350 companies are not fulfilling their financial potential because of their failure to appoint more women to key executive roles.

• Date:

  28 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  Colour of Power 2020: Diversity at leadership level has stalled

  Progress on increasing diversity at leadership levels has stalled over the past three years with just 51 of 1,097 of the most powerful roles in the UK being held by people from ethnic minorities.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Disability discrimination

  Updated to include recent decisions on the pool for comparison, causation, the justification defence and harassment based on perceived disability.

• Date:

  27 July 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  Discrimination arising from disability: Focus must be on reasons for unfavourable treatment

  In Robinson v Department for Work and Pensions, the Court of Appeal held that, in a discrimination arising from disability claim, the employment tribunal must focus on the reason for the unfavourable treatment and examine the employer's thought processes.