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Equality, diversity and human rights

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  • Date:
    9 April 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Are you making the most of your gender pay gap data?

    Now that the annual deadline has passed, it is a good time to analyse your organisation's gender pay gap calculation in detail. Understanding your data is key to developing strategies to move forward and make progress.

  • Date:
    9 April 2025
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay gaps research 2025

    With pay gap analysis back in the spotlight, our research examines current practice in UK organisations - including employee data collection and types of pay analysis undertaken, as well as employer readiness for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.

  • Date:
    7 April 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Gender pay gap: Findings from 2024 reporting

    The deadline for gender pay gap reporting has now passed and more than 10,000 organisations have shared information on their gender pay and bonus gaps. We report on the headline data and unearth some of the trends.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    Is there a limit on the compensation that can be awarded in a discrimination claim?

    Updated to reflect the "Vento bands" for injury to feelings compensation, in place from 6 April 2025.

  • Date:
    4 April 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Media myths: What did the judge really say in Higgs v Farmor's School?

    The Court of Appeal has been making the headlines after it found in Higgs v Farmor's School and others that a Christian school assistant's dismissal for social media posts expressing opposition to the ideas of transgenderism, gender fluidity and same-sex marriage was discriminatory. But did the headlines capture the essence of the court's ruling?

  • Date:
    2 April 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    A turning point for workplace harassment - key roundtable takeaways

    To help HR leaders develop their strategies to tackle the practical and cultural challenges of recent and upcoming additions to anti-harassment legislation, Brightmine and HR Grapevine convened a roundtable discussion. During the event, industry professionals shared the key issues they currently encounter in dealing with workplace harassment.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Compensation - injury to feelings

    Updated to reflect an increase to the Vento bands, for claims presented on or after 6 April 2025.

  • Date:
    24 March 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2025 employment law changes: Five-point checklist for HR

    While the introduction of neonatal care leave and pay is the key change for HR professionals to get to grips with, there are other employment law changes in April 2025. These include increases to the national minimum wage rates; a rise in statutory redundancy pay; and the uprating of statutory sick pay and family-related pay.

  • Date:
    20 March 2025
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Ethnicity data disclosure - fostering trust and building engagement for a better workplace

    Join Aggie Yemurai Mutuma, CEO of Mahogany Inclusion Partners, to learn practical techniques for encouraging employee ethnicity disclosure in ways that foster trust, protect privacy and align with evolving legal requirements.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to measure and report an ethnicity pay gap

    Updated to refer to the Government's consultation on mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting, launched on 18 March 2025. 

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