Japan’s Top Court Rules Government Restrictions on Transgender Employee’s Use of Restrooms Illegal July 13, 2023 By Mari Yamaguchi Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a transgender female employee’s use of restrooms...
Odey Resigns From Lloyd’s Investment Fund Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations June 16, 2023 By Ben Stupples Crispin Odey has stepped back from an investment fund focused on the Lloyd’s of London insurance market in a sign...
UK’s Business Lobby Group Sets Out Proposals for Change After Misconduct Scandals June 1, 2023 By Pan Pylas Britain’s leading business lobby group set out a series of proposals Wednesday that it hopes can secure its future following...
Hybrid-Work Environments Are Becoming More Inclusive for Women: Deloitte April 27, 2023 By Ella Ceron After three years of trial and error, hybrid-work environments are finally becoming more inclusive. The number of women who reported...
CBI President Says Business Group May Not Survive Sexual Assault Scandal April 25, 2023 By Sabah Meddings The Confederation of British Industry may not survive a scandal triggered by rape claims among staff, its president said, as...
Update: Major UK Companies Abandon CBI Following Second Rape Claim April 21, 2023 By Katie Linsell, Sabah Meddings, Thomas Seal and Laura Benitez A swathe of major UK companies, ranging from banks to supermarkets, have resigned from the Confederation of British Industry as...
Japanese Banks (and Insurers) Face Spotlight for ‘Gender Washing’ Women Managers April 19, 2023 By Taiga Uranaka and Komaki Ito Some Japanese banks may soon come under the spotlight for potential “gender washing” over the way they count the number...
Scandal at CBI Plunges UK Business Lobby Into Existential Crisis April 17, 2023 By Sabah Meddings and Joe Mayes When Rishi Sunak stepped up to the podium at the Vox venue in Birmingham in November, he had one mission:...
UK’s Confederation of British Industry Fires Director General After Probe of Complaints April 11, 2023 By David Milliken and William Schomberg The Confederation of British Industry said it had fired its director-general Tony Danker and suspended three others after an investigation...
UK’s Largest Companies Fail to Comply With FCA’s New Gender-Diversity Quotas March 10, 2023 By Irina Anghel Seven of the UK’s 10 largest listed companies have failed to comply with the FCA’s new gender-diversity quotas, a reminder...