Standard Life has been ranked as one of the fifty employers in the UK’s Social Mobility Employer Index, entering the new Index in fourth place.

A salary benchmarking report published by the Business Continuity Institute has shown a considerable gender pay gap across multiple demographics within the business continuity industry. The institute's study of over 1,000 business continuity and resilience professionals sought to discover the remuneration packages that those in the industry receive, including salary, bonus and other benefits. In addition to examining the UK, the report also provides deep dives into regional specifics for Australasia, Europe and the US

US companies in the S&P 100 have continued to help create a diverse workplace, according to the 4th edition of the Calvert Diversity Report.

The skilled, homeless, unemployed now (SHUN) generation faces too many barriers to gaining employability skills and social mobility, and Carillion has launched its ‘Breaking Down a Million Barriers’ campaign to help level these impediments.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced a five-year partnership with Microsoft to provide a support grant of USD5 million.

The London Market Group (LMG) and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have launched London Matters 2017, a review of London’s position in the global insurance industry between 2013 and 2015. The report reveals that diversity continues to remain a challenge, and although the proportion of female staff is in line with the UK average at 41 per cent, the proportion of female executive directors is at only 5 per cent, in comparison to the FTSE 100 average of 21 per cent.

Aviva Investors has released results of its third biennial survey of global asset managers regarding ESG issues. The survey polled 39 asset managers with combined assets of over £4 trillion, revealing that corporate diversity is taken increasingly seriously.

The new mandatory gender pay gap reporting requirements come into force today (6 April). This will require all UK employers with over 250 staff to report on the mean and median male and female salaries.

The McGregor-Smith Review of race in the workplace has been published, calling for employers to start ‘making the most of talent’ irrespective of background.

Barclays Connect with Work programme has announced that selected Gibbs Hybrid Workforce Solutions as its first corporate partner.