Equality, diversity and human rights

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Recruiting on "gut feeling" led to unconscious racial bias

  In James and another v London and Quadrant Housing Trust, an employment tribunal upheld the race discrimination claims of two housing managers after finding that they had not been selected for two senior roles because of the trust's unconscious bias.

• Type:

  International

  Global gender pay gap audits comparative table

  Enhanced to include information on requirements in Illinois (US) and to include additional information on requirements in Canada, Finland and Ireland. 

• Date:

  24 September 2024

  Type:

  News

  Employers failing to target benefits by age and gender

  Almost half of employers offer the same range of benefits to all staff, despite 76% saying staff have requested more targeted perks.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: No justification for differences in basic pay for Next shop staff

  In Thandi and others v Next Retail Ltd and another, an employment tribunal upheld the equal pay claims of retail consultants based in Next stores who undertook work of equal value to the retailer's warehouse operatives, but received less basic pay.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Empowering ethnicity disclosure: Addressing the barriers to disclosing ethnicity

  The third in our series of guides on empowering ethnicity disclosure explores how to address the specific challenges around ethnicity disclosure, which will enable HR leaders to significantly enhance the effectiveness of their ethnicity data collection efforts.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Empowering ethnicity disclosure: Challenges in collecting ethnicity data

  The second in our series of guides on empowering ethnicity disclosure supports HR leaders to establish and strengthen ethnicity disclosure practices within their organisation by exploring the common challenges to collecting ethnicity data.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Empowering ethnicity disclosure: Why is ethnicity data important?

  The first in our series of guides on empowering ethnicity disclosure supports HR leaders to establish and strengthen ethnicity disclosure practices within their organisation. In this guide, we explore why understanding racial diversity, inclusion and lived experience within an organisation is essential to making progress with DEI.

• Date:

  11 September 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Fostering belonging: Refugee and immigrant inclusion in the workplace

  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.

• Type:

  International

  Global gender pay gap reporting comparative table

  Enhanced to include information on gender pay gap reporting requirements in the US. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Failure to make reasonable adjustments for dyslexic candidate

  In Johnston v Department of Finance, an industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland found that an employer's refusal to provide an alternative "word-light" numeracy test for a dyslexic candidate, was a failure to make reasonable adjustments.