Employment Law Focus

Race discrimination

Episode Summary

How can employers meet the changing expectations of regulators, investors, employees, job candidates and clients when it comes to race discrimination?

Episode Notes

Can an employer really claim to have strong ESG credentials if they aren’t addressing societal issues like race equality and discrimination, and if they’re simply relying on policies and training?

How can employers meet the changing expectations of regulators, investors, employees, job candidates and clients?

The legal definition of race is much broader than many people realise. In this episode, Kanika Kitchlu-Connolly, co-chair of TLT’s BAME network, joins our employment team to discuss:

• Why this is so challenging but important for employers to get right
• The role of employee networks, from sharing information and lived experiences to raising issues, offering solutions, acting as a sounding board and holding employers to account
• The role of data, from helping employers to achieve their goals, to demonstrating what’s working, revealing barriers and defending claims
• Other ways to embed an anti-racism policy, from induction processes and exit interviews, to reverse mentoring and enabling people to become allies
• Complex legal issues, including those arising from “zero tolerance” policies, “banter”, harassment, indirect discrimination and positive discrimination

Our news update covers fire and rehire practices and the rights of agency staff.

Further reading:

• Acas: fire and rehire practices
• BITC: Race at Work Charter
• Rare Recruitment: Race Fairness Commitment
• EHRC: using positive action to address workplace disadvantage

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