Pepsi Bottling has created one of the most diverse boards, in terms of gender and ethnicity, of any company in the Fortune 500 with four women, one of them Hispanic; one African-American man; and one Mexican man among its 10 members. Eric J. Foss, chairman and chief executive of the Pepsi Bottling Group, sat down […]
Between autumn 2007 and spring 2008, a series of national training seminars were financed by the European Commission and carried out in all EU Member States, Turkey, Norway and Iceland. 1100 participants from NGOs and nearly 300 participants from trade unions were trained in national non-discrimination seminars, raising awareness and understanding of national legislation and […]
This European Commission released guide explains the current issues of today’s family and working policies and offers best practices and approaches to support work-life balance with European Structural Funds (ESF). These funds have already financed over 2,5 billion Euros for campaigns to reconcile work and family life and for the promotion of female employment.
McDonald’s Europe has launched the most significant private sector initiative to promote European employee mobility with its McPassport. The McPassport, an official certification of the training and skills that employees have acquired while employed by McDonald’s, is designed to support the movement of McDonald’s restaurant employees throughout the European Union.
Microsoft Austria has been actively working towards their theme of ‘More women in IT’ and has been building their numbers of female employees gradually over the past years. “For the past year and a half, every third new employee at Microsoft Austria has been a woman,” stated Human Resources Manager Alexander Hahnefeld.
In lieu of the UN’s Native Language Day, UNESCO has released a new “Atlas of the Languages of the World.” This compilation not only provides information on some 2500 languages, out of the more than 6,000 most linguists say exist, but also classifies those in terms of the risk they face over the next century.
This month, the National Gender Machinery of South Africa launched a campaign aiming to create an equal representation of women in political and decision-making positions by 2014. Minister in the Presidency, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, stated to the South African national assembly,
Die Tagung „Gendering Disability – Behinderung und Geschlecht in Theorie und Praxis“ hat im Ja-nuar 2009 in Oldenburg in Zusammenarbeit der „AG Disability Studies in Deutschland“ und dem „Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung“ mit über 100 TeilnehmerInnen stattgefunden. Die Sichtweise auf den behinderten Körper, den jeder Mensch als gegebene Natur immer mit dabei hat, […]
Am 14. Januar 2009 stärkte das Bundesarbeitsgericht in Erfurt eingetragene Partnerschaften. Mit sei-nem Urteil entschied das Gericht, dass hinterbliebene Lebenspartner wie Ehegatten einen Anspruch auf Hinterbliebenenrente bei der betrieblichen Altersversorgung haben. Voraussetzung ist, dass nach dem 1. Januar 2005 ein Rechtsverhältnis zwischen dem Verstorbenen und dem Arbeitgeber bestand und dass die Lebenspartnerschaft in Bezug auf […]
Das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit wecken und die Leistungen der Sportler mit Behinderungen einem breiten Publikum ins Bewusstsein rufen: Dieser Aufgabe hat sich Bertelsmann angenommen und wurde dafür am 11. November 2008 mit Paralympics Media Award ausgezeichnet.
