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9 Tips for Employers to Develop a Model EEO Complaint Policy and Procedure
/in Policy, Workplace Harassment/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthor: Sarah Crawford To prevent and address discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace, employers must provide effective policies and procedures. An effective policy sets expectations about behavior, provides examples of prohibited conduct, and explains the complaint and investigation process. Investigations should be conducted in a timely manner, and determinations should be communicated to the parties. […]
Rethinking Unpaid Internships: Equity Upon Entry to the Workforce
/in DEI, Pay Equity/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Joelle Min and Sarah Crawford Young people across the country often pursue internships with hopes of return offers and greater career opportunities once graduation comes along. In 2022, internships are of greater importance as the height of the pandemic last year canceled almost half of internship opportunities. Often, students are expected to be grateful […]
5 Reasons Why First-Generation College Students Should be a Target Population in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in the Workplace
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Xavier Walker, Cherrie Bucknor, and Pam Coukos First-generation college students/professionals are a unique population of people who are an increasing focus for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at colleges and universities, and that should become a formal part of workplace DEI programs. To be a first-generation student typically means one’s parent(s)/caretaker(s) did not obtain […]
7 Ways to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Hiring
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Ahmmad Brown and Sarah Crawford In today’s competitive job market, employers can deploy a range of strategies to attract and recruit diverse talent. The following recommendations – broken into the recruitment, candidate evaluation, and process maintenance phases – offer best practices and considerations to develop a recruitment and hiring protocol to ensure diversity, equity, […]
Working IDEAL: 2020-2021 in Review
/in DEI, Pay Equity, Principals, Products/by The Team at Working IDEALLooking back over the past two years, our team at Working IDEAL has navigated a global pandemic and seen a new sense of urgency around our work for racial justice and workplace equity. As we wrote in the summer of 2020, we support the call to dismantle systemic racism and over the last year we […]
How the Rooney Rule Can Advance Equal Opportunity
/in Principals, Rooney Rule/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthor: Cyrus Mehri As football fans gear up to watch the Rams and the Bengals clash in the Super Bowl this weekend, there’s another showdown happening off the field: the debate on how to best combat racial discrimination in the NFL. It’s a debate that has implications that extend beyond the football field and into […]