Over half of BME Brits told to be 'more realistic' about careers

Over half (55%) of ethnic minority people in the UK have been advised to be more realistic about their career goals by those who influenced their career, according to Equality Group

Employers should report ethnicity and disability pay gaps, says think tank

Pay transparency should be extended to cover ethnicity and disability pay gaps, according to a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research

How businesses can engage BAME employees

As chair of Amazon’s Black Employee Network (BEN) I have seen how vital it can be for organisations to engage black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees

CIPD annual conference round-up: Day two

What the HR magazine team learned on day two of the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition

Selvin Brown: UK must adopt 360-degree inclusion

Speakers at the WIG Diversity & Inclusion Conference 2018 spoke of the need to remove barriers for ethnic minorities

D&I central to the army’s operational effectiveness

Setting up a three-stage framework to operationalise diversity and inclusion in the army

Companies may be forced to reveal ethnicity pay gaps

Prime minister Theresa May has launched a consultation around mandatory reporting as part of plans to help minorities in the workplace

Why hiring white women isn't enough

The risk of solely hiring 'more women' (which often just means privileged white women) is that it limits the benefits of greater diversity

Discrimination affects one in four workers

Almost one in four UK employees (23%) say they or a colleague have been discriminated against in the past 12 months, according to research from Learnlight

We need to quicken the pace of diversity change

Ethnic minority inclusion isn’t progressing in step with other areas

Approaching business aims with a D&I lens

Treating wider business objectives as D&I issues can strongly support success in these aims, according to Skanska's global diversity manager

Hot topic: Diversity quotas, part two

PwC recently announced plans to ban all-male shortlists to boost the number of senior women