Legal advice | 5 steps HR can take to address inequality at work

The past few months have shone a significant light on the importance of equality following the death of George Floyd in the US and the protests around the Black Lives Matter movement.

With this in mind, how exactly should HR be working to improve equality in the workplace, particularly as recent statistics have indicated that ethnic minority and female employees are not as supported as their co-workers?

For example, research shared by Druthers discovered that people with Chinese, Indian or Pakistani-sounding names are 28% less likely to be invited to an interview than candidates with English-sounding names, while 78% of large UK companies pay men more than women.

Due to this, Natasha Adom, Senior Counsel at specialist employment law firm GQ|Littler, has shared with HR Grapevine five key things that the people function should consider to address inequality in the workplace: