Managing Diversity Articles
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April 6 2008 - Following recent criticism of the lack of diversity in the Fire and Rescue
Service (FRS), Parmjit Dhanda, Fire Minister for England, has committed £3million
towards increasing diversity, including plans for a national graduate entry scheme.
March 1 2007 - A new publication from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
and the TUC offers comprehensive guidelines on the practical impact of age discrimination legislation that came into
force in October 2006, covering retirement; recruitment, selection and promotion; pay, benefits and pensions; health
and safety; redundancy; and harassment.
February 9 2007 - Although the number of women studying engineering has increased, many use it as a route to other careers.
February 6 2007 - Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? 2007 is the last annual survey of senior women in the public and
private sectors before the EOC is disbanded in autumn 2007 after 30 years.
February 6 2007 - Bridget Bodman, a former accountant at manufacturing company API Group
received £25 000 compensation in November 2006 in an equal pay case supported by the Equal Opportunities Commission
(EOC).
January 21 2007 - Recent research considers the impact on senior and managing partners in leading UK law firms of
the Age Discrimination Act which came into force on October 1, 2006.
December 6 2006 - A new report from Taleo Research and The Age and Employment Network (TAEN), urges UK companies to address the looming skills shortage and capitalize on the ageing workforce by changing their approach to recruitment.
November 24 2006 - A new report in the journal Hazards indicates that over one-third of UK workers believe they will be unable to do their current job by the time they are sixty. In the last six years the UK has slipped from first to sixth in the European league table in this respect. The report argues that employers should stop using bogus health and safety excuses to get rid of older staff or avoid recruiting from this age group. Instead they should make more effort to keep the ageing UK population in work and off benefits.
September 14 2006 - Thousands of tribunal cases have not solved the problem of gender inequality.
August 24 2006 - Working fathers neither work fewer hours than non-fathers, nor see this as a problem.
August 15 2006 - Over one million 50-65 year olds currently
unemployed or economically inactive in the UK want a job, according to a new report by
the TUC.
July 3 2006 - Finance is still the best route to the top, at least for
internally-promoted CEOs, but international experience is increasingly important.
June 27 2006 - Openreach today launched Open2all, a major initiative to identify and address barriers to women joining BT as telecoms engineers. The aim of Open2all is to encourage more women to consider joining Openreach in an engineering role, thereby increasing the number of female engineers within the company.
June 10 2006 - New guidelines released by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) are designed to help employers combat the ongoing problem of sexual harassment in the workplace. On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of Jean Porcelli's landmark case that established sexual harassment as a form of harassment under the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) it remains all too common, says the EOC.
May 20 2006 - 1000's of tribunal cases have not delivered equality-it's time to consider what will
May 20 2006 - Girls and boys
study most subjects in roughly equal numbers for GCSE. Girls do very well but once their
examinations are over the genders rapidly move towards traditionally 'male' or 'female'
subjects.
March 10 2006 - Classic stereotypes of engineers as men who are brilliant
at and passionate about technology, but not very good at dealing with people, do not
reflect real engineers and their work, according to Dr Wendy Faulkner from the University of Edinburgh.
Moreover, such stereotypes are hampering efforts to recruit women into the engineering
profession.
October 25 2005 - A survey of 2682 managers and HR professionals has shown that age
discrimination is still commonplace.
August 24 2005 - Enquiries have surged since new disability legislation came into force in
October 2004.
July 14 2005 - The UK Government has published draft measures to give over 65s the same rights to unfair dismissal and redundancy payments as their younger counterparts under new measures to outlaw age discrimination in the workplace
June 23 2005 - Secretary of State for Defence John Reid
has signed an agreement with the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to address sexual harassment in Britain's Armed Forces.
19 January 2005 - The Transport and General Workers' Union has claimed its first victory in a case of religious discrimination under new legislation that came into effect in December 2003.
With companies recruiting from a pool of candidates from different nationalities, cultures and faiths the cross cultural interview is an area that must be analysed properly if recruiters wish to capitalize on the potential available to them. This is necessary to ensure that candidates in cross cultural interviews are not discriminated against through misperceptions and poor judgements.
This article aims to assist HR personnel in understanding the legislation and how practical issues stemming from religion and belief affect the workplace and HR professionals.
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