Social Mobility

Calls for more workers to be enrolled in employee share schemes

The Social Market Foundation seeks new target for workers to get shares in their firms via employee share schemes.

Plexal: making workplaces inclusive and accessible

Plexal is “the place where physical and digital collide” as it aims to provide an inclusive and accessible workspace.

UK’s working-class men are hiding their mental health issues

New research reveals over 4 million working-class men are suffering in silence with their mental health in the UK.

Accent bias exists but people can resist the urge to discriminate

Queen Mary University of London study shows people in positions of power have the capacity to resist accent bias.

How to turn national minimum wage challenges into a fillip for D&I

Despite its positive impact on the workforce, the national minimum wage still represents a compliance challenge for many UK employers seeking to build a fairer workplace. Jaspal Randhawa-Wayte, payroll expert and Director at Zellis, highlights the complexity of the rules.

1 in 5 older workers expect to quit to care for family members

The care conundrum: millions of older workers expected to quit jobs to care for adult family members.

Plexal announces first 10 innovators for OpenDoor – social inclusion programme

The twelve week social inclusion programme will support products, services or projects that make work more inclusive.

QA calls for radical overhaul of apprenticeships to boost social mobility

Apprenticeships minimum wage of as little as £3.90 an hour should be scrapped to turbo charge social mobility and support high tech growth.

The BAME experience: how to tackle racial harassment in higher education

The EHRC is due to publish its findings from a three-year inquiry into the types of racial harassments experienced in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), this month. You can help the Westminster Higher Education Forum stop racial harassment in the UK’s colleges and universities. Here is how…

Stigma around regional accents is hindering social mobility in the UK

Is being on the board unobtainable for working-class Brits? 55% of the UK report a stigma around regional accents, with London ranked the worst.