Surge in race discrimination claims

Complaints of racial discrimination in the workplace more than doubled last year and have continued to rise steadily this year, according to the Equality Tribunal’s annual report.


The Tribunal is an independent quasi-judicial body which adjudicates on complaints of discrimination in the work place and in the provision of services on nine grounds – gender, family status, marital status, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and membership of the traveller community.

 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School