"More than half (56%) of employers in the UK do not have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination within the workplace e.g. disciplining or dismissing managers that discriminate, according to surprising new research1 commissioned by Winkworth Sherwood, the leading full-service UK law firm. In addition, two in five (39%) employers have no form of diversity and inclusion strategy and 20% are not taking any steps to improve equality, diversity and inclusion whatsoever, highlighting that despite recent high-profile efforts by many sectors, there remains much work to be done to help bolster employment equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK. The findings are supported from an employee perspective too, with almost half (47%) of those surveyed believing their employer could do more to improve diversity and inclusion, and 1 in 4 employees believe their organisations are affected by some kind of bias."
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