Commentary and insights

All items: Equality, diversity and human rights

  • Third-party harassment - what employers need to know in 2025

    Date:
    5 February 2025

    Following significant changes in autumn 2024, the Government's Employment Rights Bill now promises further reforms to the harassment laws, including the introduction of explicit new third-party harassment liability. Employment judge Tina Elliott looks at the history of third-party harassment law, the current position and the changes on the horizon.

  • Inclusivity for all - how to support both parents and non-parents in your EDI approach

    Date:
    28 January 2025

    Motherhood is at the heart of a lot of policies in the contemporary workplace, where the narrative often focuses around an ideal that everyone is or wants to be a mother. This can be incredibly excluding for non-mothers. It's great to provide policies and benefits that support parents, says Caroline Green, but how can you supplement your support for everyone else?

  • Employment law 2025: Six key tasks for HR

    Date:
    6 January 2025

    In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year

  • Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp

    Date:
    6 December 2024

    The Employment Rights Bill packs 28 imposing employment law reforms into its 158 pages. While HR professionals await the substantive details needed to flesh out the Bill, we outline the key policies that you will need to update and an overview of what those updates might involve.

  • Employment Rights Bill essentials: Gender equality action plan

    Date:
    4 December 2024

    In the first of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Bill, we look at the plan to require large employers to publish an action plan on the steps that they are taking to address the gender pay gap and support employees going through the menopause.

  • Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting - five tips to help organisations improve their data and outcomes

    Date:
    25 November 2024

    Although the formal Bill is yet to be published, the Government has outlined plans to require organisations with 250 and more employees to report their ethnicity and disability pay data. To prepare HR leaders for this change, Brightmine and HR Grapevine convened a roundtable discussion to address the practical and cultural challenges of expanded pay gap reporting.

  • Employment Rights Bill published: 10 highlights for HR from the first draft

    Date:
    11 October 2024

    After months of waiting, the Government has finally published the first draft of its wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill, which will make radical changes to employment law in the next few years. Now that the Employment Rights Bill has begun its progress through Parliament, we highlight the key points from the first draft for HR professionals.

  • New sexual harassment prevention duty: 10-point checklist for HR

    Date:
    8 October 2024

    From 26 October 2024, employers of any size in England, Wales and Scotland have a specific duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of workers in the course of their employment. As the implementation date approaches, what should HR professionals be doing to ensure that their organisation is ready to comply with the new duty?

  • EHRC issues updated guidance on sexual harassment at work

    Date:
    27 September 2024

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published updated guidance on how employers should deal with sexual harassment in the workplace.

  • Fostering belonging: Refugee and immigrant inclusion in the workplace

    Date:
    11 September 2024

    Ideas about nationality and citizenship influence our perspectives on "belonging" and what that looks like in a healthy workplace environment. Here, Georgie Williams considers how we can foster ideas of belonging that defy the constraints of national borders and anxieties around cultural differences.

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