Equality
ORC Announces Winner of Prestigious Diversity Champion Award for 2010
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 17:29
HRC & WON members discusss new criteria for Corporate Equality Index
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:29The Human Rights Campaign, a US-based advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, met with members of the Workforce Opportunity Network (WON) last month to discuss the updated set of criteria for its well-known Corporate Equality Index. The index scores companies based on how well their policies and practices support inclusion of LGBT employees.
Nita Beecher on Capitol Hill to Discuss Paycheck Fairness
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 09:57Tomorrow WON compliance leader Nita Beecher will be on Capitol Hill on a panel discussing the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act. She joins a distinguished group, including former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, invited to analyze the costs of the bill and its effects on employment from the economic, legal, and small business perspectives, and she will provide WON members a briefing on the discussions later this week.
EEO and Diversity Efforts by US Companies with Overseas Operations
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 14:31A member was interested in the EEO and Diversity efforts of US companies with overseas operations. They were trying to determine how companies with overseas operations handle concepts such as EEO and Diversity and corrective action/discipline; how they impose/monitor internal company policy and how they track employee data.
Of the members that responded, all were US Companies with employees working outside the United States. Their US based employee count ranged between 3,500-134,000 and the non US based employee count ranged between 2,000-500,000.
Complimentary Compensation Compliance Seminar: Risk Management in the New “Era of Enforcement”
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 08:36ORC’s compensation and employment law experts will teach compensation, equality and diversity, and compliance professionals the ins and outs of new U.S. legislation and enforcement strategies and how to ensure the protection of their organizations against claims of pay discrimination or misclassification of jobs. The full day agenda will include sessions on recent and pending legislation, how changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act may affect your job classifications, and a “Parking Lot” discussion when participants can get answers to their questions and share best practices.
Vanguard and Breakthough (UK)- Spring 2010 in Review
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 10:44Employee engagement across working life
As companies struggle to meet the challenges of the recession, HR and business commentary is highlighting the importance of employee engagement; the key to business success is motivated employees within a supportive and inclusive culture - the theme of the recent Vanguard network meeting.
UK: India Clashes with Britain over Equality Bill
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 10:30The Equality Bill has been welcomed by campaigners for India’s “Dalits” or “untouchables”, a caste which suffers extreme violence and persecution, but has been rejected by their government as it outlaws caste discrimination as a form of racism.
The Farmer and The Cowman Should Be Friends
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 23:00Forty eight years ago, when ORC started what we now call our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practice in the U.S., it was really an equality practice, and the main focus was compliance under the new laws and regulations that were emerging from the U.S. federal government.
On the Horizon: the Diversity of Socio-economic Class
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 00:02A report issued in January by the U.K.’s National Equality Panel highlighted the importance of an individual’s socio-economic class in determining outcomes such as educational achievement, job opportunities, and quality of healthcare.
Shaping Fairness and Equality after the Recession - Report
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 16:06In keeping with our long history of helping advance the art and practice of human relations, and in particular our commitment to developing thinking and practice in equality and diversity, ORC were delighted to sponsor two thought provoking seminars held in London in late 2009 in conjunction with the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF). The focus of the seminars which attracted policy makers, academics, employers etc was the issues arising from the impact of the recession and the implications for fairness, equality and social justice.
