Online answers to the diversity dilema
By Jane Bell (April 2007 Issue)
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Bloomberg, one of the City’s leading financial service companies, recently lost a six-figure sum in an employment tribunal after former employee Janine Funsch sued them for sexual discrimination, for refusing her request to work part time following the birth of her daughter. The Sexual Discrimination Act of 1975 was Mrs Funsch’s ammunition for her settlement.
It all feels like a story told far too often. It still amazes me that in the age of the multicultural society, when many organisations have diversity officers and follow socially responsible policies in employee relations, high profile companies still slip on banana skins like the Funsch case, damaging their reputations as well as losing money in hefty payouts.
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