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Council announces £1million investment to kick-start tourism in town A council has unveiled a £1m package to kick-start the town’s tourism economy. On the day that the Government roadmap allows for the reopening of some parts of the tourism and hospitality industry, Blackpool Council has revealed an investment plan to help the resort recover from the near-catastrophic effects of the pandemic. The council has already declared that the traditional Illuminations season will be extended by two months until January 3, 2022, to enable businesses to recoup some of the losses they have incurred this year with the national lockdown wiping out the lucrative Easter period.
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Employee wellbeing has risen up the agenda for business leaders in recent years.
Surveys show employees of color routinely encounter racism and are more likely to feel underpaid.
Experts share the steps businesses can take to help ensure non-white staff aren t discriminated against.
Employee wellbeing has risen on the agenda for business leaders in recent years. But research shows a racial disparity in employees experience of the workplace.
A quarter of people of color reported suffering or witnessing bullying or harassment by their managers at the work in the previous two years, according to a 2018 survey by UK business network Business in the Community.
The number of Black executives at the very top of the biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange has fallen to zero. There are no Black CEOs, CFOs or chairs in the FTSE 100 index for the first time in six years, according to a study published on Wednesday by Green Park, an executive recruitment and diversity consultancy agency. No progress has been made on diversity since Green Park began researching the issue. Only 10 of 297 people in the three top leadership positions do not identify as white, the same proportion as in 2014, the research found. The snowy peaks of British business remain stubbornly white, Trevor Phillips, the chair of Green Park, said in a statement. We know there is no shortage of qualified candidates to fill these roles if companies are willing to look, he added.
How I Got Here podcast is back with a bonus episode
David Elliot presents a special edition of the careers podcast
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Sponsored How I Got Here returns for a special bonus episode as part of Belfast Live and Electric Ireland s Power of Pause campaign. David Elliott chats to Connor McAuley from Kaizen Print about his journey from bedroom to boardroom and how the company approached staff mental health to create a system to nurture and understand employee needs.
How I Got Here is available now on Spotify , iTunes , Google Podcasts & TuneIn . David also talks to Denise Cranston from Business In The Community and Patricia Rooney from Tughans about the wider implications of mental health policy, practice and law for employers.