Employers have again been warned to tighten their Diversity practices after it emerged that Microsoft UK stopped using a supplier due to its poor policy on the issue. Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK, said that the global IT firm was increasingly looking at its suppliers’ Diversity policies. “In one case, we changed provider […]
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions enter ed into force on 18 March. To date, 52 States have ratified the Convention. In an unprecedented event, the European Union adhered to the convention as a regional organization of economic integration.
Creating an open culture and complying with the law are equally important to employers when it comes to diversity training, according to research. One in three employers said they offered diversity training to improve the working environment and another third cited legal compliance as their primary reason.
New Zealand. We reach a country ‘on the other side of the earth’ (seen from our home country) after eleven hours onboard a plane from South America. Friendly and helpful people walk around the streets of Auckland in their ‘flip flops’. Everything in the largest city of New Zealand looks ‘very British’. The appearance of […]
Many small and medium companies are turning to migrant labour because of the “shockingly low opinions” employers have “of the skills, experience and productivity” of British-born workers, according to a survey published today. The study by the British Chambers of Commerce said a shortage of suitably qualified and committed British workers was storing up problems […]
Germany’s interior minister has called for an EU-wide dialogue with Muslims in an effort to integrate them better. Wolfgang Schaeuble suggested that the EU should promote the training of imams to encourage Muslim leaders who were comfortable with European values. He compared
Migrants are playing a vital part in overcoming one of the biggest barriers to business expansion by making up for a shortage of skilled workers, employers say. The comments from the CBI, based on a survey of the London job market, contradict claims by opponents of an “open door” policy that east European immigrants are […]
Greece announced that it would take part in a program that aims to tackle illegal immigration by offering jobs to migrants on short-term contracts and providing them with greater financial rewards if they return to their homelands.
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.
Only 32% of the Maltese believe that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture, the lowest percentage among the EU’s member states. According to a Eurobarometer study entitled “Discrimination in the EU”, the majority of citizens in all but four member states said that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture.
