Religious discrimination in the workplace

A major new study has revealed just how widespread religious discrimination is across workplaces and highlighted the reality of tolerance and diversity for millions.

The report, which is one of the biggest projects of its kind, looks at the experiences of more than 6,000 Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh employees.

Despite progression of fighting racism, discrimination and efforts to embrace diversity, places of work have been found to be hostile environments for people of faith. Worryingly, nearly a third (32%) who expressed their religious identity had a negative experience which included mockery, exclusion, mistreatment, isolation and more.

Aston spoke to Professor Binna Kandola OBE, diversity and inclusion specialist and co-founder of Pearn Kandola.

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