Diversity Faculty
Our Diversity Faculty comprises legal expertise and in-house business advisors to provide clients with a full service offering as part of their diversity journey and development of their diversity strategy and cultural values.
8th juillet 2021
Business groups have called on the Government to implement a mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting obligation.
6th juillet 2021
15th mars 2021
The final report of the Hampton-Alexander review was published at the end of last month. Progress has been significant, the number of female directors in FTSE 100 companies increased by 50% in the last five years.
12th janvier 2021
The complex nature of gender identity, and what it means to transition, can make it a difficult topic for employers to approach.
19th juin 2020
We previously told you in October 2018 that the UK government was consulting on mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting. That consultation ended on 11 January 2019. Since then, there have been no updates from the government on the outcome of the consultation.
10th mars 2020
Purpose, culture and values have become a key focus for business strategy over the last few years. However, these issues can be seen as “soft” or as difficult to define and can be extremely difficult to meaningfully separate, identify and measure. How can companies effectively measure and manage progress in achieving their chosen corporate culture?
3rd février 2020
As Veganuary comes to a close, we reflect on the Employment Tribunal’s high profile ruling that ethical veganism is a “philosophical belief” and qualifies for protection from discrimination under the Equality Act.
13th septembre 2019
According to the ONS, menopausal women are the fastest growing working demographic in the UK. Yet support for the debilitating symptoms of the menopause is absent from many workplaces.
16th septembre 2019
Mental health and wellbeing at work is an important strand of diversity, but one that does not always receive as much focus as other areas.
11th septembre 2019
Socio-economic status is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to success in the workplace. Is it time for a change in the law?
9th septembre 2019
New fathers in the workplace represent a working group whose family-friendly rights have not necessarily kept up with the pace of societal change.
16th janvier 2019
In December 2018, Christopher Woolard (the FCA’s Executive Director of Strategy and Competition) commented that a firm’s approach to diversity and inclusion can tell us a lot about its culture.
19th novembre 2018
Disappointing is perhaps how best to describe the contents of the 2018 Hampton-Alexander Review, which reports on female representation on company boards and executive pipeline.
21st janvier 2019
Linklaters has recently completed the pilot of its reverse mentoring scheme. Nick Marshall, a Managing Associate in the Employment team, talks about the benefits to business of reverse mentoring, and his experiences of mentoring a member of Linklaters’ Partnership Board as part of the pilot.
