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This Isn’t WorkingIs Stonewall Crumbling - And How Should Employers React?IS STONEWALL CRUMBLING – AND HOW SHOULD EMPLOYERS REACT? As any smart HR professional who's been paying attention will know, suddenly everyone is talking about Stonewall – and not in a good way.
Once considered a solution – a trusted, credible advisor on best practice for workplace policy concerning sexual orientation (or ‘gay rights’) – now the organisation is viewed as a problem by many employers, pulling them into complex, personal and controversial issues around politics, sexuality, medicine and identity.
Is it time to drop off the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and withdraw from the Diversity Champions scheme?
Looking ba...
2024-05-161h 01This Isn’t Working'Kemi's' DEI Report: Exciting Or Embarrasing For Employers?UNFLATTERING BUT POSITIVE – AND ESSENTIAL READING FOR EVERY HR PROFESSIONAL IN THE UK That’s Julie and Tanya's verdict on the new Inclusion at Work Panel report, released last week by the Department of Business and Trade. Have you read it yet? If not, why not?
In Episode 4 of *This Isn’t Working* Julie Scanlon and Tanya de Grunwald take a deep dive into what many people quickly started calling ‘Kemi’s diversity report’.
(It was commissioned and launched by the UK's Secretary of State for Business and Trade, and Women and Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, as...
2024-03-271h 03This Isn’t WorkingWhy Are Unpaid Internships Still Happening?There are still too many unpaid internships around, but there are fewer than there were - and that's partly thanks to Tanya de Grunwald.
In this episode, Julie Scanlon interviews her co-host about her 'dark past' calling out Simon Cowell, Tony Blair and Philip Green over unpaid internships. The pair discuss why Tanya's activism was so successful in the 'golden era' of the 2010s, where and why progress stalled, and how the next generation of young campaigners could re-start the fight:
- What does the law say about unpaid internships - and why do people...
2024-03-1233 minThis Isn’t WorkingInternational Women's Day: What Isn't Working?Love it or loathe it, International Women's Day has become an essential date when every employer must... do what, exactly? And why? Does 8 March need a re-think, as well as a re-brand?
In this episode, Julie Scanlon (grumpy) and Tanya de Grunwald (grumpier) discuss whether anything about International Women's Day is still working for employers and employees, including:
- What is International Women's Day? Are we celebrating, protesting or both? And does it even have a place in the world of work?
- What's with the two themes? If the UN's is 'Invest...
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