Day: October 11, 2018

    Firms are to be forced to publish their ethnic pay gap, Theresa May has announced. The PM is launching a major consultation on mandatory reporting of wage differences between white workers and those from different ethnicities. The dramatic move is part of a series of measures to be unveiled today aimed at tackling barriers facing ethnic minorities in work. It comes after a previous voluntary call for all firms to publish ethnic pay gap details sparked only low levels of responses. Leaders of the NHS , Army, schools and the police will also today set out plans to boost the proportion of public sector leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds. Mrs May’s Race at Work Charter will commit businesses to a new set of principles and actions designed to drive forward a chan...

    She is ninth in line to the throne, grand-daughter of the Queen and the second royal bride to tie the knot at Windsor in 2018. The Royal wedding of Princess Eugenie of York and her fiancé Jack Brooksbank will take place tomorrow, on Friday October 12, with rapturous applause no doubt provided by 1,200 public invitees who are expected to gather in the historic grounds of Windsor Castle. Windsor residents, charity representatives, and school children on the guest list, just as they were for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, which took place on May 19. Once the ceremonial trumpets are silenced and the rings exchanged, the carriage ride through the streets of Windsor will take place although not quite the same streets as the procession of the Duke and Duch...