From May to October, 38 Allianz employees from various countries will participate in „Diversity@ Sea”, a global Diversity Initiative by the Allianz Group. The program will team them up for a week with disabled participants to sail tall ships off the coasts of Britain and France. Each week, they will share living quarters and learn […]
This campaign is promoting a Europe-wide petition for a new European Directive to outlaw discrimination. The main aim of this directive is to ban discrimination in access to goods and services on grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief – areas not currently covered in the EU anti-discrimination directives of many EU […]
More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress in gender equity in recent years. This is the main conclusion of the Social Watch 2008 Gender Equity Index (GEI) which, for the first time, shows recent evolution and trends in bridging the gap between men and women in […]
Natasha Kelly a 34-year-old black German woman is suing her former landlord. In December 2007 he evicted her from an apartment in Osnabrueck/Western Germany because she was black and a single mother. In his eviction notice he wrote: “Some of the other tenants are unhappy about your background and skin colour and your personal situation […]
A recent survey “One Step Ahead of 2011: A New Horizon for Working Women” conducted by Accenture provides an overview of how tomorrow’s workforce feels about the changes to business that will accompany the increasing levelling of economic power globally. 4,100 professionals (both gender were equally represented) from medium to large organizations in 17 countries […]
Metastudie zeigt wirtschaftliche Effekte von Diversity auf Diversity hat sich in Deutschland mittlerweile fest als Managementansatz etabliert. Hatten im Jahr 2000 erst zwei DAX-30 Unternehmen einen oder mehrere Diversity Manager, sind es heute bereits mehr als die Hälfte. Aber was bringt Diversity Management konkret? Welche empirisch messbaren Erfolge erzielen heterogene Teams und wie wirkt sich […]
Menschen mit Behinderungen wollen ganz normal am Erwerbsleben teilnehmen. Trotzdem finden sie nicht immer einen Job. Projekte, bei denen die BewerberInnen nicht einfach nur integriert wer-den, sondern unverzichtbarer Bestandteil der wirtschaftlichen Wertschöpfungsprozesse sind, helfen beim Start in ein „ganz normales“ Arbeitsverhältnis. In Integrationsfirmen schrauben die Kollegen mit Handicaps nicht etwa stundenlang Kugelschreiber zusammen, sondern schaffen […]
The BBC will launch mentoring programs and other initiatives to fill more top positions with ethnic minority and staff with disabilities. The broadcaster plans to tackle their lack of diversity with several measures over the next three years. According to PersonnelToday these actions will address 90 employees who are covering jobs in radio and TV […]
IBM indirectly recruits disabled people to administrative roles through a strong relationship with an outsourcing partner. The computer giant already outsources some production processes in Scotland to Haven Products, a small business where 82% of staff have disabilities. The service of Haven Products will be expanded and will soon include also administrative tasks. Linda Scott, […]
Car giant ‚Honda‘ has been ordered to pay 64,000 British pounds to an Indian worker who was forced to quit after suffering racial abuse at work. Kalmesh Shah, who worked at a Honda factory for nearly two years, was allegedly moved randomly between production line jobs without training, bullied and refused toilet breaks by his […]
