RIDI announces 2020 disability awards finalists
The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) 2020 Awards finalists have been announced today. The awards received well over 100 "record-breaking" entries this...
How to champion employee engagement during COVID-19?
Employer brand consultancy Universum has organised a remote event on how to champion employee engagement in the midst of COVID-19. The free...
BDF launches Covid-19 disability & mental wellbeing toolkit
Business Disability Forum (BDF) has launched a free online toolkit to help companies support disabled colleagues and customers during the Covid-19 outbreak....
1/4 UK employers plan permanent layoffs amid Covid-19 crisis
The UK’s professional body for HR and people management, CIPD, has revealed that 50% of UK employers plan to temporarily layoff staff...
Big Fish launches virtual training for D&I professionals
The Big Fish training academy has launched strategic virtual training sessions to help diversity and inclusion (D&I) professionals better influence team leaders and...
Staff at serious risk of mental ill health amid Covid-19, warns CIPD
Employers urgently need to step up mental health support for staff amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, warns the Chartered Institute of Personnel...
Remote working: How to remove barriers for neurodiverse staff
Texthelp has organised a free webinar for HR and diversity and inclusion (D&I) professionals on how to remove barriers for neurodiverse staff who...
BDF’s Diane Lightfoot shares disability inclusion best practice
In celebration of Women’s history Month, Fair Play Talks interviews Business Disability Forum’s CEO Diane Lightfoot – a diversity champion who’s not only pushing...
BCU launches Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity
Birmingham City University (BCU) has today launched the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity ‘virtually’ to hold the media industry accountable...
UK Government suspends gender pay gap reporting this year
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the UK’s Government Equalities Office (GEO) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have today taken...