Equality, diversity and human rights

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• Date:

  28 January 2025

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

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

  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?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability-related absence: tribunal round-up

  We look at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Advancing gender equality in the workplace: Supporting employees' performance and wellbeing

  Enhanced with additional information on how employers can support employees who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, including adopting the BS 30416 - Menstruation, Menstrual Health and Menopause in the Workplace guidance and toolkit.

• Date:

  6 January 2025

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment law 2025: Six key tasks for HR

  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

• Date:

  11 December 2024

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Supporting neurodiversity in the workplace

  Laura Kimpton, HR strategy and practice editor at Brightmine, discusses how organisations, and line managers in particular, can support and champion neurodiversity in the workplace.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting in Northern Ireland

  The Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) is consulting on introducing mandatory gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for employers in Northern Ireland with 250 or more employees.

• Date:

  6 December 2024

  Type:

  News

  Northern Ireland consults on gender, ethnicity and disability pay reporting

  A consultation has been launched in Northern Ireland on gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.

• Date:

  6 December 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp

  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.

• Date:

  4 December 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment Rights Bill essentials: Gender equality action plan

  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.

• Date:

  25 November 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

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

  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.