{"id":88883,"date":"2021-02-11T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=88883"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:54:03","slug":"national-equality-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/national-equality-standard\/88883\/","title":{"rendered":"Mott MacDonald achieves national equality standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mottmac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mott MacDonald<\/a> has achieved the National Equality Standard, the UK\u2019s highest benchmark for equality, diversity and inclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ey.com\/en_gl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EY<\/a> and developed by business for business, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalequalitystandard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Equality Standard<\/a> sets clear equality, diversity and inclusion criteria, against which companies are independently assessed.<\/p>\n<p>It is supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equality and Human Rights Commission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/home-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Home Office<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbi.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Confederation of British Industry<\/a> (CBI).<\/p>\n<p>Between September 2019 and March 2020, EY assessors reviewed Mott MacDonald\u2019s policies and practise against 35 competencies covering all aspects of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>EY looked at HR, recruitment, learning and development, and business practices as well as assessing documentation and speaking to staff.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve the National Equality Standard, Mott MacDonald worked throughout 2020 on new plans to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/construction-diversity-issues\/83217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">equality diversity and inclusion<\/a> goals, including piloting an &#8216;Achieve or Explain&#8217; process to support diversity in interview shortlists.<\/p>\n<h3>Attracting diverse talent across the board<\/h3>\n<p>Cathy Travers, Mott MacDonald\u2019s regional general manager for Europe, said \u201cI\u2019m delighted that we have attained the National Equality Standard, demonstrating our commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/diversity-in-construction-2\/73361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">equality, diversity and inclusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were dedicated to achieving this and pleased that EY also recognised our work on mental health and wellbeing as well as the positive efforts made in attracting diverse talent across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arun Batra, EY partner and CEO of the National Equality Standard, added: \u201cWe are absolutely delighted to be awarding Mott MacDonald with the National Equality Standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hard work that is being undertaken and the obvious commitment that they have demonstrated right from the top of the business is something which they should be very proud of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the assessment, we were particularly impressed by their focus on talent attraction approaches, initiatives to support positive mental health and leadership within the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Mott MacDonald and to all those who were involved throughout the process \u2013 it is a great achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mott MacDonald has achieved the National Equality Standard, the UK\u2019s highest benchmark for equality, diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[676,628,882,994,661,923,81864,592,934],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-diversity","9":"tag-employment","10":"tag-equality","11":"tag-hr","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mott-macdonald","14":"tag-skills","15":"tag-wellbeing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mott MacDonald achieves national equality standard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mott MacDonald has achieved the National Equality Standard, the UK\u2019s highest benchmark for equality, diversity and inclusion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/national-equality-standard\/88883\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mott MacDonald achieves national equality standard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mott MacDonald has achieved the National Equality Standard, the UK\u2019s highest benchmark for equality, diversity and inclusion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/national-equality-standard\/88883\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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