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Diversity & racism failures: 'I heard the N-word in a Board meeting'

Diversity & racism failures: 'I heard the N-word in a Board meeting'

With news that six in ten Boardrooms still don’t have an ethnic minority presence, revelations about treatment and racism at the top of the British workplace might not shock as much as they should.

These poor stats come despite the fact that Sir John Parker’s government-backed review into diversity on Boards concluded that the biggest firms should have at least one non-white Director by 2021.

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