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Equality, diversity and human rights

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  • Date:
    22 July 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Diversity and inclusion - closing the gap between rhetoric and action

    Committing to a more diverse and inclusive workplace is one thing. Achieving it is another. In this webinar, you will learn how to bridge the gap between your organisation's good intentions and meaningful action - without fear of getting things wrong.

  • Date:
    20 July 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Six steps to embedding a diversity and inclusion strategy

    Having a diverse and inclusive workplace is important not only ethically but also for improving employee morale, boosting innovation and enhancing business success. We set out six practical steps that employers can take to embed diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

  • Date:
    20 July 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Long COVID: Potential scenarios for HR and how to deal with them

    We set out some possible scenarios that HR professionals may face in relation to long COVID, and explain how they could tackle them.

  • Date:
    20 July 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Unconscious bias training: What you need to know before you start

    Unconscious bias training has been part of the diversity and inclusion practitioners' toolkit for a number of years, but criticism from both sides of the political spectrum has many questioning its impact on our rights, workplaces and communities. In the first of two articles, Gareth Buchanan shares his views on why unconscious bias training has been making headlines of its own.

  • Date:
    19 July 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Diversity, equality and inclusion: Five common misconceptions and mistakes

    What do we really understand about diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI)? Interest in DEI has boomed in recent years - both in the wider political spheres of the Western world and in a more focused way in the workplace. Georgie Williams explores five common misconceptions we hold, and mistakes we make, around DEI, and explains how to implement effective change.

  • Date:
    6 July 2021
    Type:
    Case studies

    How Masthaven Bank improved gender diversity across senior roles

    Masthaven Bank talks to XpertHR about its Women in Leadership initiative, a programme to improve gender diversity across senior roles in the business.

  • Date:
    29 June 2021
    Type:
    Case studies

    How Plymouth Citybus closed its gender pay gap

    Plymouth Citybus speaks to XpertHR about how it successfully closed its gender pay gap through a combination of pay rises for its lowest-paid, predominantly female, job families and a restructuring of its senior management grades.

  • Date:
    17 June 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Creating a transgender inclusive workplace

    Joanne Lockwood, transgender awareness specialist, shares her experience as a transgender woman in the workplace and explores how organisations can cultivate transgender inclusive practices.

  • Date:
    16 June 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Gender-critical beliefs - the implications of the EAT's recent decision

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the belief that "biological sex is real, important, immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity" is a protected philosophical belief. Consultant editor Darren Newman explores the implications of the EAT's decision.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Religion or belief discrimination: Gender-critical belief is protected, EAT holds

    In Forstater v CGD Europe and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the consultant's belief that sex is biologically immutable amounts to a philosophical belief within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010.

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