Category: Equality & Diversity

Modern slavery, employment policies and your business

With the jailing of a pair of Nottingham brothers for people trafficking and modern slavery this week (breaking 23/1/17) have you thought about your own business and how you can prevent this happening now and in the future?  HR180’s Modern Slavery Employment Policy to the rescue! In the 21st Century, slavery is happening worldwide – including […]

September 19, 2016

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Is your dress code discriminatory?

MPs are demanding that legislation is enforced so cases like Nicola Thorp, PWC and ‘Heelgate’, which came to light last year, will be a thing of the past. At HR180 we are committed to helping employers build policies which go above and beyond the requirements of employment law. So what might this mean for you? […]

September 19, 2016

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Know your Religious Festivals: it’s not just about Christmas!

HR180, the Leeds based outsourced HR and HR Consultancy people, hope you have had a very peaceful Christmas. Our very own HR Assistant, Nuhman Sharif, suggests as the New Year turns it’s a good time to think about the whole range of Religious Festivals which are observed or celebrated by your employees and associates. In […]

September 19, 2016

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Biggest H&S disaster in Leeds: Barnbow Lasses 100 years on

It’s a quiet disaster involving the sacrifice of 35 women that I want to commemorate today – 100 years after the awful events of the Barnbow munitions factory situated not many miles from the HR180 office near Leeds, during the First World War. They were known and the Barnbow Lasses or Barnbow Canaries. It was […]

September 19, 2016

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Q&A: what small businesses are asking now

Forward Ladies hosted our very first #HR180Chat on Twitter in early November 2016. HR180 came up with some answers on the day to questions about common problems businesses are looking for help with. Here’s a transcript with a few more ideas for the melting pot! Q We are finding it difficult to fill general roles, […]

September 19, 2016

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Fattism: workplace inequality

Leeds-based HR180 – your Outsourced HR and HR Consultancy experts – like to keep you up-to-date on issues affecting UK businesses. People Management magazine reports this week on new academic research from Strathclyde University which reveals ‘deeply unsettling’ gender inequality in the workplace related to perceived weight. This is something we blogged about earlier this […]

September 19, 2016

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Gender pay gap: a mum tax?

HR180 Ltd, the Leeds based experts in HR Outsourcing and Consultancy, is committed to flexible working for all employees and actively encourages all the team to develop their careers, irrespective of gender. But the recent Institute of Fiscal Studies report paints a bleaker picture for working mums. Our part-time Marketing Manager, Rachel Bentley, looks at the latest stats – and […]

September 19, 2016

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Brexit Bites: Harrassment & business policies – are your’s in shape?

Britain’s new home secretary, Amber Rudd, yesterday announced plans to launch a multi-million pound campaign to tackle rising hate crimes in the wake of Brexit.  According to the latest statistics from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the UK has seen a 20 percent increase in hate crime between mid-June and mid-July this year compared […]

September 19, 2016

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Fattism: new protected characteristic?

In order to reduce discriminatory action taking place against employees within the workplace there is a set of protected characteristics established in the Equality Act 2010. These are split into several categories reflecting existing discriminatory protections: age, race, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion/belief, sex and sexual orientation. The protected […]

September 19, 2016

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Short men and overweight women ‘earn £1,500 less at work’

Vicki Arnstein 11 March 2016 Study points to ‘awful but true’ unconscious biases among employers, say experts Employers are being warned not to unwittingly discriminate against people because of their height or weight, after researchers at the University of Exeter found that short men and overweight women earn less. A study that examined data from […]

September 19, 2016

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