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Diversity is good for business
REC report with guiding principles for building a more diverse and inclusive workforce
Diversity & inclusion
GRC signatories need to be fair, legal and ethical in resource planning and recruitment procedures, with specific regard to actively promoting diversity and inclusion within the workplace.
What we expect of GRC signatories
- The charter is looking for employers to look beyond doing the bare minimum of being compliant in accordance with the law, and ensure that their recruitment processes are setting the standard of being ‘ethical’ and ‘fair’.
- Initiatives may include schemes which actively seek candidates from traditionally under-represented groups such as women, older workers, disabled people and ethnic minorities.The charter is looking for employers to look beyond doing the bare minimum of being compliant in accordance with the law, and ensure that their recruitment processes are setting the standard of being ‘ethical’ and ‘fair’.
- This principle is partly about ensuring that organisations reflect society, their customer base and locality. It is also about encouraging internal promotion into more professional and senior roles for under-represented groups.
- The principle highlights the importance of organisations having a strategic approach to resource-planning to identify their long-term, as well as short-term, skills’ needs.
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Our work on diversity and inclusion
We lead and support programmes which help people from under-represented groups to progress in the workplace. We provide REC members with opportunities to get involved in projects which increase social mobility, focusing on areas including the progression of low paid workers, disability employment, older workers and women in the workplace.
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