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  • 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.

  • Date:
    8 June 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Neurodiversity: how accessible is your recruitment process?

    Organisations need to devote more thought to neurodiversity - a less visible and obvious form of diversity - and appreciate that intelligence comes in many forms. They can start by improving their recruitment processes and making themselves more accessible, argues Dr Louise Karwowski.

  • Date:
    8 June 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Three steps to becoming LGBTQ+ inclusive all year round

    With Pride Month in full swing, Lynne Hardman shares three ways organisations can ensure support for the LGBTQ+ community all year round.

  • Date:
    25 May 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Neurodiversity

    Dee Caunt, chief executive at the Dyslexia Association, shares her thoughts on how organisations can support neurodiverse employees and benefit from their unique strengths.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    No sex discrimination when pay enhanced during adoption but not shared parental leave

    In Price v Powys County Council, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employment tribunal was entitled to reject a male employee's sex discrimination claim against an employer that enhances adoption pay but not shared parental pay.

  • Date:
    8 April 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Why intersectionality should be considered when forming a D&I strategy

    By failing to recognise how the lived experiences of people with common characteristics can differ, organisations will undermine well-intentioned efforts to improve inclusion. Bianca Moodie and Stuart Affleck outline what intersectionality means and how it can be incorporated into an organisation's D&I strategy.

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