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- Date:
- 16 November 2017
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Unconscious bias can stop us making the best recruitment and progression decisions at work, but what if some or all of the processes involved were automated? Robert Bolton, partner at the Global HR Centre of Excellence at KPMG in the UK, examines the potential for technology to help employers shake off discrimination.
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- Date:
- 14 November 2017
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Tom Gosling asks whether companies can ignore inequality and just get on with the business of generating wealth, or should they consider themselves as social entities in their own right?
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- Date:
- 9 November 2017
- Type:
- News
Gender boardroom targets should be extended beyond the FTSE 100 to the FTSE 350, Sir Philip Hampton has urged.
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- Date:
- 11 October 2017
- Type:
- Legal guidance
HR has a key role in preventing discrimination against transgender people. Jennie Kermode, author of a new book on transgender people in the workplace, gives six tips on making the workplace more inclusive.
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- Date:
- 6 October 2017
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Last month, David Lammy MP published a review recommending that, in certain cases, criminal records could be sealed from employers. Reforms such as this could have positive consequences for businesses and workers alike, argues employment solicitor Catherine Hawkes.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on the workforce disability equality standard to be included in the NHS standard contract from April 2018.
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- Date:
- 31 October 2016
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
A report published by the National Autistic Society has called on employers to help close the "autism employment gap", after revealing that only 16% of those with autism are in full-time paid work.
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- Date:
- 6 October 2016
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Acas head of research, Andrew Sutherland, calls on employers to change attitudes to dyslexia in the workplace and celebrate neurodiversity.
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- Date:
- 8 June 2016
- Type:
- Law reports
An employment tribunal has held that an employer fairly dismissed an employee for using a racist term in the presence of white colleagues. The tribunal was unimpressed with the claimant's arguments that he did not realise anyone was listening, did not intend to offend, and the word is "street talk" where he lives.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Additional information on the Equality Act 2010 and Public sector equality duty for NHS employers in Scotland. To be read in conjunction with the general information on the law on equality.
