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Racial Inequality Increasing in UK Workforce

Ethnic minorities might never be proportionally represented in the UK workplace, according to a report published by the Race for Opportunity campaign. Based on detailed analysis of the Office of National Statistics’ Labour Force Surveys between 2000 and 2007, ‘Race to the Top’ is the UK’s most comprehensive investigation into the place of ethnic minority groups in the workplace and, most notably, within management. Read the report here (2066 kb) .

It has been announced that the extension of the right to request flexible working patterns to parents with children up to the age of 16 will come into force on 6 April 2009. Business in the Community welcomes this move, which has been introduced as part of a wider equality bill outlined in The Queen’s Speech on 3 December.

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5 Millionth Learner Covered by the Skills Pledge

Parcel courier James Ford has become the five millionth employee in the country to benefit from the Skills Pledge campaign to skill up the nation after his employer, the world’s biggest delivery company DHL Express, made a commitment to train its 9,000-strong workforce. DHL Express also wishes to offer a skills for life programme for those employees who would benefit from development in basic English and Maths.

The Skills Pledge: Make skills mean business