Practical guidance from the UK’s leading diversity and inclusion experts at Annual Conference 2019.
It’s the CBI’s 2019 Annual Conference, and a panel of diversity and inclusion experts have come together to talk about how businesses can approach their pay. The session, sponsored by Hays, looked at how businesses need to collect data on diversity and use it to understand the barriers and challenges that people face in the workplace. With the third round of gender pay gap reporting in April 2020 and the likelihood of ethnicity pay gap reporting coming into force soon, it is clear there is no silver bullet to approaching the challenge of closing pay gaps.
We were joined by: Yvonne Smyth, Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Hays; Sarah Churchman OBE, Director, Chief Inclusion, Community & Wellbeing Officer at pwc; Denise Wilson OBE, Chief Executive of the Hampton-Alexander Review; Claire England, Director of Diversity and Inclusion at JLL; and Lewis Iwu, CEO and Co-Founder of Purpose Union. Find out what they had to say.
Transparency drives accountability
Reporting on diversity has come a long way since it first started in 2011, when it examined the number of women on