As a nation we are as obsessed with class as we are with talking about the weather or house prices. But putting someone down because of their social standing will soon be outlawed if senior ...

The UK government should pass a law against class discrimination at work, according to a trade union body. A new report calls for discrimination on the basis of class to be treated the same way as ...

Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses if social class discrimination a serious problem in the workplace and how employers can avoid social class discrimination in their workplace. A ...

Class discrimination should be made unlawful and organisations must be forced to report class pay gaps to address inequality in the industry, Equity has said. The union is backing a campaign from the ...

Business society has become increasingly vocal about including different kinds of candidates in the workplace. Considerations such as racial and ethnic diversity, and recruiting from a talent pool ...

Legal measures are needed to tackle class discrimination in the workplace, the TUC has said. During its Congress, running from 8 September to 11 September, the federation of trade unions is calling on ...

Graduates from wealthier backgrounds are more than twice as likely to be on a £30,000 starting salary than those with working-class roots and people from well off families are almost 80% more likely ...

In debates around societal equality and discrimination, social class has been neglected in comparison to gender, race, disability and sexuality, which are protected characteristics in the UK under the ...

Class should be protected from discrimination just like gender and race, leading psychologists have said. The British Psychological Society (BPS) has called for a person’s social class to be given the ...

Legal measures are needed to tackle class discrimination in the workplace, the TUC has said. During its Congress, running from 8 September to 11 September, the federation of trade unions is calling on ...

Trade union body the TUC has called for legal measures to tackle discrimination based on class at work. Among the proposals, it said firms should be forced to report any gaps in pay between workers ...