Hundreds of thousands of men face salary cuts of up to £15,000 to fund increases for women staff. Equal pay claims for up to 1.5 million public sector workers could cost the taxpayer more than £10 billion and mean that hundreds of thousands of men will lose up to 40 per cent of their salary.
A large number of business leaders will only appoint a woman into a very senior post in times of crisis and poor performance, according to a new report. Women face a “hidden form of discrimination”, which sees them more readily appointed to tough jobs where they are more likely to fail, according to Women in […]
“One of the reasons diversity pioneers invented this concept back in the 1980s was to add a more positive and business-orientated perspective to what had been mainly a legal compliance issue. Consequently, a comprehensive approach was developed into more outward-driven programmes that aimed at supporting business results (“diversity for the bottom line”), beyond reasons of […]
Clerks and representatives of NGOs from Prague learn to work with immigrants more efficiently in a special course. The course is held within the project “Be In During Integration,” which is covered from the European Social Fund and the state budget. Some 310,000 foreigners live legally in the Czech Republic, making up 2.5%t of inhabitants.
Flexible working is central to the way McDonald’s Restaurants does business. All hourly-paid employees choose their availability on a weekly basis, there’s a part-time scheme for restaurant managers and office staff can work compressed summer hours to get more from their weekends. Also,
Der “Kuschelfaktor” wurde bei der Ermittlung des “Top Arbeitgebers 2007” zwar vermerkt, ging jedoch nicht in die Bewertung ein. Die “Bosch Rexroth AG” erreichte nicht nur in dieser Kategorie Spitzenwerte, sondern auch in den anderen Disziplinen wie “Entwicklung”, “Jobsicherheit”, “Work-Life-Balance” und “Vergütung”. Dafür wurde das Unternehmen jetzt vom Magazin “Karriere” zum besten Arbeitgeber Deutschlands ernannt.
Das AGG liefert Stoff für neue Lernprogramme. Doch Lernprogramm ist nicht gleich Lernprogramm. Die einzelnen Programme unterscheiden sich in der Ansprache der Zielgruppe und Schwerpunkten. Der Artikel „Lernprogramme zum AGG“ vergleicht verschiedene Programme. Der Text ist in „Trainingaktuelle 11/2006 erschienen und online auf www.managerseminare.de abrufbar.
Work life balance prizes don’t just award companies – in Switzerland, families can also be rewarded with such an honour. “Employés Suisse”, the biggest national employee organisation in Switzerland, awards three families (gay and lesbian families can also participate) that focus on a good balance between work and life.
Five multinational companies have been added to the AARP’s “National Employer Team”. Companies like Staples (office supplier), Home Depot (home improvement retailer) or ClientLogic (business process outsourcing services), who operate branches in Europe, Middle East and Asia, are now part of AARP’s list of companies that promote work for older people.
In the last couple of years we have seen a further division of diversity, whereas the opposite should have taken place: globalization and international alliances should lead to consistency and connectivity. How can that be?
