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Diversity and inclusion

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  • Date:
    16 August 2022
    Type:
    Case studies

    How Dematic boosted gender diversity through culture change

    Dematic talks to XpertHR about how it cut its gender pay gap and improved the gender balance of its workforce through a culture-change process focused on good leadership, good management and good practice.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Equality, diversity and inclusion training: Employment tribunal round-up

    We look at three employment tribunal cases that involved the provision of equality, diversity and inclusion training in the workplace.

  • Date:
    15 August 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    HR talking point: Why equality, diversity and inclusion training matters

    XpertHR principal employment law editor Stephen Simpson argues that the blithe devaluing of equality, diversity and inclusion training by senior government figures fails to take account of the practical and legal benefits that such training brings for employers, especially if they are facing an employment tribunal.

  • Date:
    15 August 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Preventing bullying and harassment: Five reasonable steps for employers to take

    Under the Equality Act 2010, an employer can escape liability for acts of discrimination committed by its staff where it has taken "all reasonable steps" to prevent the discrimination. What steps should employers take to reduce the risk of liability for bullying and harassment committed by their workforce in the course of employment?

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policy

    Enhanced with a new version of the model policy, with the example wording reflecting an organisation's commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion at work, including how this commitment is put into practice.

  • Date:
    10 August 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    HR talking point: Developing case law on expressing gender-critical beliefs at work

    Two recent high-profile rulings have something important to say about direct religion or belief discrimination. However, both deal with a controversial topic - how an employer should deal with an employee who does not accept its approach to trans rights - so it is easy to miss that lying behind the controversy an important legal principle is being fought over, says consultant editor Darren Newman.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Equality, diversity and inclusion: What does it mean?

    A guide that explains the main stages of the journey through which employers progress as their approach to equality, diversity and inclusion matures.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Menstruation (period) policy

    A model policy to set out the rights of staff affected by menstrual symptoms and explain the support available to them.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Menstruation: Failure to provide sanitary waste disposal bin in staff toilet was sex discrimination

    In Reilly v RT Management Bridgeton Ltd, an employment tribunal held that a line manager's failure to address an employee's request to have a sanitary waste disposal bin placed in the staff toilet because she was "the only female of menstruating age who used the toilet" constituted sex discrimination.

  • Date:
    21 June 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Why hiring Ukrainian refugees sets a precedent for a fairer future

    UK employers have rushed to source Ukrainian talent displaced by war, keen to help them rebuild their lives, as well as access their skills in a tight labour market. Could this usher in a fairer future for all refugees, writes Mursal Hedayat?