There continues to be a gender bias in boardroom appointments in Britain’s biggest companies, according to new research.

An independent review of workplace policies will see trade unions, businesses and academics working together with the Scottish Government to create better working environments.

Changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), which protect the employment terms and conditions of employees who are transferred from one organisation to another, came into force at the end of January this year.

An ability to talk about the business case for diversity isn’t sufficient for CEOs to really drive the kinds of behavioural change needed to increase the number of women at senior levels, according to new research by KPMG and King’s College London.  Instead CEOs need to be brave, and talk from their hearts as well as their heads.