We believe employee diversity is an asset to our business. Men and women of various ages from different backgrounds and cultures, with a range of different experiences and capabilities, help us understand and serve our customers and reach our business objectives. We aim to create a working culture that respects the value of differences among colleagues and encourages individuals to contribute their best. We strive to ensure equality of access, process, and outcomes within an environment that is inclusive, open, flexible and fair.
We value all differences within the workplace and consider both visible and non-visible differences to be key in developing an innovative and creative working environment. We recognise the benefits that different people with different backgrounds and experiences can bring in understanding the needs of a diverse customer base and that harnessing these differences will create a productive environment where individual’s talents are being fully utilised and in which organisational goals are met
It is our policy to treat all partners, employees, prospective employees, contractors, clients, customers and suppliers fairly and equally regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, transgender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, age, disability, working patterns, responsibility for dependants, union membership status or marital status including civil partnerships, part-time or fixed-term status (contract type), pregnancy and maternity leave any other irrelevant factor.
Some examples of the activities that we undertake are as follows:
- Information sheets available to all staff to raise awareness of the diverse nature of our workforce. This covers information on religions of our staff, calendars with the important dates consider nationalities and religions and raises awareness of global issues
- Quarterly monitoring of all diversity statistics of MGWSP workforce and our workforce in comparison to the local labour market
- Communication and training to all employees and subcontractors of our Diversity policy and general discussion groups on the activities and expectations of those involved in working for and with MGWSP
- Day to day activities to strength and broaden the depth and diversity of our workforce eg. recruitment and selection methods and practices
- Six monthly audit of our working practices to create and develop a working action plan. This is monitored with regularity to aim for continuous improvement.
Read more on MGWSP and diversity Equality and Diversity Policy
The Public Sector Equality Duty
For the ease of all of our clients, we aim to follow the Public Sector Equality Duty. It is important for our business to meet and achieve the high values and standard set out by our clients. That said, there are some areas of the personal lives of our workforce which we feel, for their own integrity, should not be displayed openly and so the areas related to the protected characteristics of sexual orientation and marital status are not included.
Please find attached:
For the current and up to date diversity monitoring statistics for the MGWSP internal workforce, please click here
We are currently finalising the details of our sub-contracted workforce and these will be available in due course
For the current and up to date annual business objectives for future Diversity actions, please click here
For the current and up to date Diversity Continuous Improvement Action Plan, please click here
