In November 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a paper and infographic on ethnicity and the labour market based on analysis of the 2011 Census.
On 5 November 2014, the Minister for Women and Equalities launched ‘Women on boards: progress following the 2012 Corporate Governance Code’.
‘Think, Act, Report: three years on’ is the annual report on the Government’s Think, Act, Report scheme, a voluntary initiative to drive greater transparency on gender employment issues.
Three reports on education, poverty and employment, and gender, published by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in October 2014, focus on different thematic areas of its Roma survey.
A blog by Abigail McKnight and Tania Burchardt says that ‘Lord Freud’s widely-reported recent remark that some disabled people are not “worth” the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is not supported by CASE research’.
On 1 October 2014, the Government announced the introduction of regulations to ensure employers meet equal pay legislation requirements.
In August 2014, the Scottish Government called for further powers to deliver at least 40 per cent female representation on public boards.
The Rights at Work campaign aims to raise awareness amongst people with cancer of their rights in the workplace.
In August 2014, the EHRC published the report of a project examining employment practices in the cleaning sector in England, Scotland and Wales.
This site provides links to websites that help young disabled people find and stay in work.
