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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.

  • 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:
    4 December 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Act 2025 essentials: Gender equality action plan

    In the first of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Act 2025, 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.

  • Date:
    21 November 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Fireside Chat with National Deaf Children's Society

    In this 30 minute fireside chat, Penne Cecil Hutton, Compensation Planning Expert at Brightmine, talks to Kate Taylor, People Project Lead at National Deaf Children's Society, about the journey they went through to implement a robust compensation and rewards strategy that met their unique business needs.

  • Date:
    21 November 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: What changes should HR prepare for from the Employment Rights Bill?

    The Labour Government published its highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024. In this edition of the podcast, Brightmine employment law experts Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson analyse the key proposals in the Bill and offer advice on how HR can begin to prepare for the changes.

  • Date:
    20 November 2024
    Type:
    News

    Class pay gap: Working-class professionals paid 12% less

    Professionals from working-class backgrounds across the UK are effectively no longer being paid for their work from today until the end of the year because of the class pay gap.

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