Diversity and equality

As part of its new metrics, McDonald’s is targeting 35% of U.S. senior management to be from underrepresented groups by 2025, up from 29% currently.

Two former employees alleged they experienced racial and religious discrimination while working at the firm.

The job site’s users can analyze salary data based on race and gender, and they also will be able see how people from different groups rank companies on metrics such as workplace culture and promotional opportunities.

The bank said the new program is part of its diversity strategy of doubling campus hiring of analysts from historically black colleges by 2025.

More than 2.1 million women have left the workforce completely since February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An organization connects vision-impaired job seekers with employment at companies looking to diversify their workforce.

While Aetna and several other insurance companies do cover the cost of gender-reassignment surgeries, the pool of companies offering coverage is declining.

Blackstone Launchpad will add 45 colleges and universities in the next five years for a total of 75 to their student entrepreneurship initiative.

Employers have big plans to recruit more workers in 2021. But deciding where they’ll work is the most recent workplace debate.

Firms owned by Asian, Black or Latino Americans were more likely to report “fair” or “poor” financial conditions in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.