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An employer embarking on major growth has launched a new approach to L&D that is "not just bolted on, it's truly integrated", its senior leaders say.

An inclusive hiring system requires much more attention to detail, and it starts with facilitating candidates' 'choice-control' through informative job ads, according to disability recruitment specialists.

Employees are becoming more "energised" to advocate for their workplace rights and the Fair Work Commission's first equal pay ruling has important lessons on preventing and defending these types of claims, a lawyer says.

Only 40% of women say their leader is inclusive "all of the time", and just 18% agree their leader matches company rhetoric on gender diversity, new research has found.

• Pay transparency up significantly in job ads
  
• "Shift cultural norms" to advance gender equality
  
• Flexible work requests require 'bias towards yes'

Ikea has turned an eight-week placement program into a permanent recruitment pillar, after achieving success on multiple levels with a pilot refugee workforce inclusion program.

DEI leaders' limited decision-making capability is one of their biggest hurdles at the moment, but there are three ways to tackle this, says an advisor.

An employer has achieved a 50% increase in men taking parental leave, and a 75% reduction in women resigning while on parental leave, since making its policy more inclusive.

Leaders who view errors as opportunities to learn, not grounds to criticise, not only make employees feel more psychologically safe at work, but also to perceive their work as more meaningful, according to Australian researchers.

Employers have made diversity, equality and inclusion a business priority in recent years, but amid economic uncertainty there's a risk their hard-won progress will stall. Watch this webcast to keep your organisation's DEI strategy on track.