New reporting requirements have been introduced around monitoring culture more closely. Will this improve corporate governance or be just another box to tick?

The Code sets out that for accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2019 the board should:

?These came into force in January 2019, with most reporting generally beginning in 2020 (apart from CEO pay ratios)

One year on from the launch of the Race At Work Charter, firms are still failing to prevent racially-motivated bullying and provide equal opportunities for BAME staff

Culture, selection processes, performance management, diversity training, a transparent pay system and flexi-time have all contributed

While HR professionals may feel they've now got to grips with gender pay reporting, similar legislation is being introduced in other countries. So HR must understand regional variations

Campaigners have called for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) exposes sluggish progress on BAME workers' pay

?Forty-seven organisations have been named and shamed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for failing to report their latest gender pay gap data

Two years into mandatory reporting and growing gaps are prompting calls for compulsory action plans and narrative statements, with concerns around data accuracy

Scope is calling on other organisations to join it in reporting disability figures, so that employees can get the workplace support they need

The Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018 means organisations need to follow new rules around employee engagement and reporting on executive pay ratios

With just one week to the deadline for the second year of gender pay gap reporting and with thousands of firms yet to report, we look back at what we’ve learnt so far