Three lessons from Accenture UK’s International Women’s Day event

Speakers explored the ways organisations can proactively 'get to equal'

Legislation on non-disclosure agreements to change

?New proposals to prevent employers from using gagging clauses to cover up wrongdoing have been put forward

Mathematically-impossible 2017 gender pay gap figures yet to be corrected

HR professionals must be taught to be statisticians if gender pay gap data is to be calculated accurately, expert warns

Baby Boomers dissatisfied with work/life balance

Baby Boomers rate their work/life balance as much poorer than younger generations

One month until Working Families Best Practice Awards 2019 entry deadline

?There’s one month left to apply for Working Families’ Best Practice Awards 2019

Most businesses' job adverts contain 'male bias'

More than half (60%) of businesses exhibit male bias in job adverts as a result of gendered language, according to research by Adzuna

Disabled people frozen out of work

Almost three-quarters (73%) of disabled workers in the UK have stopped working because of a disability or health condition, according to disability charity Leonard Cheshire

The state of unconscious bias in the UK

Only 51% of FTSE 100 companies have directors from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, and only 8% of the total director population in the UK is BAME

HR future leader of the month: Jorda Haile

HR magazine speaks to the future leaders of the industry to discover what makes them tick

Features

Age discrimination biggest obstacle to re-entering employment

People out of work want more guidance on the jobs they should apply for

Double standards stunting female career progression

Women face greater challenges to career progression, but male employees are less aware of gendered double standards