5 minutes | Wednesday, 19 September 2018
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned ethnic minority and disabled people’s careers are at risk by a failure of employers to collect meaningful data on representation in the workforce.
The national equality body is calling for mandatory reporting on staff recruitment, retention and promotion by ethnicity and disability, as it publishes research which shows that most employers fail to collect this data or do so inconsistently.
Sue Coe, head of employment at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, joined us to discuss the research.