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Challenging toxic cultures – the role of Investigative Review

    Reports in just the last few months at the Bartlett School of Architecture, at Macmillan Cancer Support and at Amnesty International have shone further light on the way toxic, abusive and dysfunctional cultures …

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Islamophobia affects majority of Muslims at work, recent research finds

An overwhelming majority of Muslim employees in the UK are suffering religious abuse at work. Research by the media platform Hyphen and market research company Savanta ComRes found 69% of Muslim workers have suffered some …

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Frontline workers suffered bullying, racism and harassment during the pandemic, EHRC finds

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has reported that lower-paid health and social care workers in frontline roles experienced bullying, racism, and harassment at work during the Covid-19 pandemic but felt unable to raise …

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Fawcett Society launches employer toolkit to counter sexual harassment

Women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society has set out five pillars to change organisational culture to help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. The pillars form part of a new employer toolkit developed ahead of the government’s …

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Workplace Surveillance rising rapidly – and workers don’t like it

A survey conducted for the TUC by Britain Thinks has found that employee surveillance in the workplace has risen during the pandemic and now risks “spiralling out of control” Employee surveillance covers a wide range …

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Universities UK issue new guidance on staff-student sexual misconduct

Universities UK has issued important new guidance on how prevent and deal with staff-student sexual misconduct. The guidance calls for “clear policies” to be in place to tackle staff-to-student sexual misconduct, with those that report …

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