Graduates could benefit from equality training

Offering training on equality and discrimination could benefit graduates and other employees of organisations, it has been suggested.

There is a clear need for businesses to offer more of this training to people in a graduate job and other staff members, suggested Righttrack Managing Director of Learning and Development, Kasmin Cooney.

She said nearly nine in ten recent graduates had experienced workplace discrimination.

Ms Cooney noted that many people in graduate jobs and other employment are not sure what their rights are.

As a result, there has been a significant rise in the need for relevant training, she argued.

Organisations that tackle such cases through training could improve retention, creativity, innovation, working relationships and motivation among staff, Ms Cooney suggested.

'Diversity development is like any other: to make a positive impact there needs to be a buy-in from the board level,' she commented.

Discrimination based on factors such as age, gender, religious belief, disability and sexual orientation is outlawed in the UK.