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Diversity
Just 6 per cent of UK managers are from black and
minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) despite
accounting for more than double that in terms of the
country’s workforce as a whole.
As many as 29 per cent of black employees believe
discrimination has played a part in stalling their
careers, echoing a Business in the Community (BITC)
study, which concluded that, “racism very much
remains a persistent, if not routine and systematic,
feature of work life in Britain”.
Racial discrimination at work has been a problem for a
very long time, but the severe financial penalties
involved in perpetuating it, particularly post-Brexit, are
now crystal clear
Research shows that some 58 per cent of white
employers don’t feel comfortable talking about race in
case they inadvertently offend people.
With one in four primary schoolchildren in this country
now coming from a BAME background, there is
everything to play for in terms of harnessing the
talents of the next generation.
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