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Publication 10 Jun 2025 · United Kingdom

Equality, diversity & inclusion

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As part of their ESG agendas, businesses are implementing strategies to transition to NetZero, create fair and responsible working practices and ensure proper governance to meet all stakeholder expectations. Delivering on commitments towards ESG issues is no easy task, requiring workers to be aligned to this agenda and having the right skills to deliver it.

A diverse workforce brings different perspectives, increased innovation and stronger employee engagement.

Businesses that think about the reflecting political landscape around them generate higher revenues and attract quality talent. Organisations that fail to do this and have poor workplace cultures, face legal and reputational risks. How an organisation and external stakeholders measure the success of initiatives designed at making their workforce more diverse and inclusive will vary depending on how developed its strategy is. Steps can include:

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Implementing a strategy to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace.
 

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Establishing policies to support a diverse and inclusive organisation.
 

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Ensuring company culture matches the words laid out in these policies - creating employee networks can be very effective.
 

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Implementing training so employees are fully aware of their obligations and appreciate the importance of diversity and inclusion.
 

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Collecting diversity data to benchmark and track progress.
 

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Reporting on diversity and inclusion to key stakeholders.
 

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Providing board level accountability for diversity and inclusion.
 

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Call for evidence on equality law

Spotlight on Sexual Harassment

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Employment Rights Bill Deep Dive #4 – Workplace protections against harassment

The Law and the Little Things Microaggressions in the workplace

Most organisations today recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion within their workplaces, in particular, how to build an inclusive culture.  However, organisations need to go beyond warm words to deliver on commitments in practice.

This webinar series addressed subtle aspects of discrimination in the workplace in the form of microaggressions.

Highlights of recent diversity and inclusion experience

We have worked with a variety of employers to develop their strategy and approach to the preventative duty. We also developed an E-learning module to assist employers with compliance.

Advising an international energy company on the employment law and data protection obligations involved in their diversity data project and ethnicity pay gap reporting. Included advice on the appropriate questions to ask in their diversity survey and technical advice on the rules around processing ethnicity data.

Investigated multiple allegations of sexual misconduct made against a senior manager in a global media company. Involved a review of documentary evidence, interviewing witnesses and the production of a report.

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