Following public consultation in 2025, The UK Government has announced that larger, (above 250 employees), employers need to report on ethnicity pay gaps and disability pay gaps.
This is in addition to existing requirements to report on CEO and gender pay gaps.
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Concrew Training have updated all our Equality and Diversity Training Courses to reflect the very latest developments. Click Here >>
We have now updated our Equality Diversity and Inclusion training, EDI Training, to include latest legislation and changes to the “Nine Protected Characteristics”
Annual EDI Training is essential for all leaders, managers and HR teams.
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It provides a raft of practical information,good practice and the do’s and don’ts in key areas, such as
In doing so it helps managers approach EDI in an effective way rather than adopt, often well intentioned but fundamentally flawed, ways of working
There have been several EDI Tribunal cases reported recently, with fines in the region of £50k to £60K.
One has to ask, why in this day and age do EDI issues reach tribunal stage?
Digging deeper it appears that too many Employers may be paying only lip service to EDI and equality legislation.
It is very easy to write and publish policies and procedures BUT unfortunately that, in many businesses is where they end.
Filed away on a hard drive, left forgotten on a website. For many organisations many of their front of house policies are more about PR and appearing compliant than actually being compliant.
If a policy is to be effective is needs to be trained out to all appropriate staff. Staff need to understand what is and what is not acceptable and have the confidence to report breaches;
Managers and leaders need to understand how to respond when a breach is identified or reported.
Not acceptable here policies demand more, far more than just words on a piece of paper
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