Employer Guide

Mentoring Programmes

This guide is for anyone exploring the benefits of mentoring or thinking of setting up a mentoring programme.

25 March 2025

Employer Guide

Stammering

This guide aims to help you understand how employees may be affected by stammering.

5 July 2023

Employer Guide

Retaining and Progressing Disabled Employees

This guide aims to help companies better understand how to retain employees with disabilities and expand their opportunities for promotion and progression.

18 March 2025

Employer Guide

Applying Intersectional Principles in the Workplace

Intersectionality is a framework for better understanding ourselves, others, our interactions, and the world around us.

3 August 2022

Employer Guide

Inclusive Procurement

Inclusive organisations should commit to the highest ethical, social, and environmental standards and this includes how they select and work with suppliers.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Inclusive Recruitment

This guide aims to help you understand the potential benefits of taking an inclusive approach to recruitment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Managing Mental Health in the Workplace

This guide aims to help you understand the potential effects of mental health difficulties on your employees.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Marriage and Civil Partnership and Employment

This guide is designed to help employers understand the impact of equality and discrimination legislation on employment policy, with a focus on issues related to marriage and civil partnership.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Neurodiversity in the Workplace

The purpose of this guide is to present you with an understanding of different types of neurodiversity in an employment context.

7 March 2024

Employer Guide

Positive Action in Recruitment

This guide aims to help you understand the potential benefits of taking an inclusive approach to recruitment and the appropriate use of positive action.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Progressing Underrepresented Ethnic Groups

This guide aims to help companies better understand how to treat underrepresented groups in the workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Race and Employment

This guide explains the impact of equality and diversity legislation on employment policy, with a focus on issues related to race.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Reasonable Adjustments in the Workplace

This guidance is designed to allow you to recognise areas of risk and find proactive policies for creating a working environment that reflects your organisation’s inclusive approach to employment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Religion or Belief and Employment

This guide aims to help employers understand issues associated with religion or belief and employment policy.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Sexual Orientation and Employment

This guide explains key areas surrounding sexual orientation and employment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Social Inclusion in the Workplace

This guidance is designed to allow you to recognise areas of risk and find proactive policies for creating a working environment that reflects your organisation’s inclusive approach to employment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

World Religions and Beliefs

This guide aims to give both human resource (HR) practitioners and line managers a better understanding of the religions and beliefs so they can accommodate the needs of employees.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Agile Working

This guide is written for employers who wish to introduce agile working in their workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Allyship in the Workplace

This guide aims to help companies get a better understanding of allyship and its contribution to the creation of an inclusive workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Disability and Employment

This guidance is designed to allow you to recognise areas of risk and find proactive policies for creating a working environment that reflects your organisation’s inclusive approach to employment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Diversity Monitoring

This guide aims to help organisations better understand the process and the role of diversity monitoring in creating more inclusive workplaces within the UK.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Champions

This guide aims to support employers who intend to appoint diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) champions for their organisations.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Dress Codes and Uniforms

This guide explores the topic of appearance at work.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Employee Networks

This guide provides information for employers considering setting up and maintaining internal support organisations referred to as employee networks, employee resource groups (ERGs), affinity groups, or other staff representative groups.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Employing and Supporting Carers in the Workplace

This guide aims to help you understand the potential effects of caring responsibilities on your employees.

22 April 2024

Employer Guide

Encouraging Employees to Share Diversity Data

This guide explains how employers can encourage individuals to share their personal data, which should always be done on a voluntary basis.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 was introduced in England, Scotland, and Wales to simplify equality law in Great Britain.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Equality Impact Assessments

This guide aims to help companies better understand the role of equality impact assessments (EQIA) in creating an inclusive workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Faith Networks

Employee networks, sometimes referred to as Affinity Groups or Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), can be powerful in engaging people in your workplace diversity and inclusion efforts.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Gender Reassignment

This guide provides information about gender reassignment and trans inclusion in the workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Gender and Employment

This guide explains key areas surrounding gender and employment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Harassment, Bullying, and Victimisation

Harassment and bullying are harmful behaviours that are unwelcome and unwarranted and can be detrimental to the workplace and the people involved.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Hybrid Working

This guide is written for employers who wish to introduce hybrid working at their workplace.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Inclusive Communication

Communication is a two-way process of understanding others and expressing yourself.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Inclusive Language

Organisations should use effective and inclusive language to create a welcoming and inclusive environment.

16 June 2022

Employer Guide

Menopause in the Workplace

This guide aims to help you understand the impact of menopause on your organisation’s employment policy.

28 April 2022

Employer Guide

Age and Employment

This guide provides information and tips to help you become welcoming to—and inclusive of—the millions of working age people in the UK.

28 April 2022

Employer Guide

Hearing Loss and Deafness in the Workplace

This guide provides information and tips to help you become welcoming to—and inclusive of—the millions of working age people in the UK who are deaf or have hearing impairments.

28 April 2022