Creating fair employment means ensuring that all individuals have equal access to decent work opportunities, fair wages, job security, and safe working conditions, free from discrimination or exploitation; this is closely linked to health because stable, respectful, and adequately compensated employment supports mental and physical well-being, reduces stress, and enables access to healthcare and healthy living conditions.
Making your workplace inclusive
Guidance outlining practical steps employers can take to build an inclusive workplace, covering policies, recruitment, pay, training, leadership and day‑to‑day practices to support equality, diversity and inclusion at work.
Britain’s families living on the breadline
Exploring the rise of in‑work poverty in the UK, showing how many families are struggling to make ends meet despite being in employment, and questioning the idea that work alone lifts people out of poverty.
Facts and figures: Economic empowerment
Presenting the key global statistics on women’s economic empowerment, highlighting the persistent gender inequalities in work, equal pay, access to resources, and economic opportunities that are available worldwide.
Employment, fairness at work, and enterprise
Findings from the UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, highlighting progress in employment and enterprise alongside ongoing inequalities in pay, progression, and representation
Greater Manchester Employment Charter
A voluntary scheme that supports employers to raise employment standards by promoting secure work, fair pay, wellbeing, inclusion, and good people management across Greater Manchester.
