You’ve told us that tackling skills shortages is a top priority.
One way to ease recruitment difficulties is to make it easier for people from diverse talent pools to access jobs in your businesses and help them progress in their careers with you.
That’s why Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce is working with a new UK-wide Workplace Equity Commission.
We’ve brought together an amazing panel, comprising businesses and experts from across civic society.
The aim is to help SMEs, across all sectors and geographies, create more equitable workplaces. We are defining ‘workplace equity’ as creating a level playing field for individuals, recognising that we do not all start from the same place and that adjustments may be required to provide fair access to opportunity. It is considering equity for everyone, and not focusing on any group or protected characteristic.
How to get involved
We have published a national Call for Evidence that asks: ‘How can SMEs create more fair and equitable workplaces?’
We hope you will share any work you are doing, or planning to do, on equality, diversity and inclusion with us.
We are inviting views and insights from everyone who wants to contribute. We’d like to hear about best practices, as well as any challenges firms are facing, and where more support is needed. We aim to produce practical recommendations for business and government that will help create a level playing field in our workplaces and resolve the widespread recruitment difficulties that are holding back growth. The Call for Evidence is open until 16 February 2024.
Full details can be found here.
For more information, or to submit evidence, please email suzanne.quinn@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
