Diversity and equality

The presidential election is stirring a lot of charged emotions; a labor attorney advises how managers can keep these conversations productive.

The higher education benefit is increasing the company’s retention and advancement rates.

The company created new features that highlight employers who are committed to inclusion. Where does your company rank?

COVID-19 has many professional women reevaluating their priorities.

As many as tens of millions of women may never return to the labor force, even after a vaccine is found. Altogether, global gross domestic product could be $1 trillion less in 2030 than it would be without a gender unemployment gap.

The initiative is part of a broader push to compel workforce transparency at companies that have made explicit statements of support for equality.

For EAPs, delivering culturally competent care means understanding the needs of a diverse workforce and ensuring that the elements of all services meet those needs strategically.

Google parent Alphabet pledged $310 million to expand diversity efforts and resolve shareholder litigation that alleged the company’s board to failed to prevent sexual harassment and hid misconduct by executives.

“Many companies seek to create trans inclusive benefits packages, but their employees oftentimes don’t use the benefits provided because of fear of harassment in the process of accessing healthcare,” says Soltan Bryce, head of growth at Plume.

Within the first six months, employees on the spectrum were 48% more productive than their non-spectrum peers who had been at the same job for three to ten years.