Sodexo UK has voluntarily published its ethnicity pay gap data for 2020, making it the first company in the hospitality and FM industry to do so. Sodexo has a long-standing commitment to fairness and equity and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and in 2019 publicly pledged, through Business in the Community’s Race to Work charter and through the … [Read more...]
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Sodexo announces new five year university contract
Sodexo has announced its partnership with Solent University, Southampton has been substantially extended following a competitive re-tender of the catering and hospitality services contract. Sodexo has secured the new five-year contract which will see a complete transformation of the University’s current catering provision. The new contract sees Sodexo’s team working with the … [Read more...]
Bartlett Mitchell aligns diversity, inclusion and equality with Black History Month
Bartlett Mitchell has today announced a series of measures aimed at strengthening its commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality. Launched to coincide with Black History Month, the company has committed to the values outlined in the ‘Business In the Community Race at Work’ charter. Bartlett Mitchell Black History Month The charter offers a strategic framework for … [Read more...]
New CEO appointment at Sodexo for corporate services business UK & Ireland
Sodexo has announced the appointment of Julie Ennis as CEO for its corporate services business in the UK & Ireland from 1 March, following the expansion of current CEO David Bailey’s role to oversee Sodexo’s corporate services business in North America. Ennis joined Sodexo in February 2019 as managing director for Sodexo’s corporate services business in Ireland. She … [Read more...]
Sodexo celebrate six years inclusion in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women
Sodexo has been included in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women for the sixth consecutive year. The unranked list is published in partnership with Business in the Community, part of the Prince’s Responsible Business Network and is the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers leading the way on workplace gender equality. The Times Top 50 list … [Read more...]
Hospitality from necessity is now totally reliant on embracing diversity
Hospitality from necessity is now totally reliant on embracing diversity For far too long the hospitality industry has endured people and skills shortages and this results in our industry as a whole under delivering on our core skill, hospitality. Yes, there are many glorious exceptions, but...as a whole there just aren’t enough people with the required level of skills … [Read more...]
Four Sodexo employees among top ethnic minority role models
Four Sodexo employees have been named among top ethnic minority leaders, published today in the Financial Times. Michelle Delices and Raj Verma are named at numbers 92 and 86 respectively in The EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executives List, with the EMpower 50 Ethnic Minority Future Leaders list including Sajna Rahman and Harpreet Cheema at positions 37 and 47 … [Read more...]
Sodexo in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women fifth straight year
Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, has been recognised for its leadership in gender equality by being named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2018. The Times Top 50 Employers for Women is published in partnership with Business in the Community, the Prince’s Responsible Business Network, as part of the charity’s Responsible Business Week. The alphabetical … [Read more...]
Sodexo signs up to Government’s Disability Confident scheme
Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, has signed up to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme to employ, support and promote people with disabilities. The announcement comes ahead of the United Nations’ International Day for Persons with Disabilities on Sunday (3 December). Sodexo’s head of diversity and inclusion for the UK and Ireland, Megan Horsburgh … [Read more...]
Chevalier Award for Sodexo’s Margot Slattery
The country president of Sodexo Ireland has been named Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French Ambassador to Ireland. His Excellency Jean-Pierre Thébault bestowed the honour on Margot Slattery at a ceremony at the French Embassy in Dublin yesterday (8 June). The Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite is bestowed to reward distinguished civil and other … [Read more...]
Two Sodexo employees among top BAME role models
Two Sodexo employees have been named among top ethnic minority leaders, published today in the Financial Times. Sodexo’s service operations finance director Amolak Dhariwal is listed in the Empower Top 100 Ethnic Minority Leaders. Sodexo head of digital communications Stephen Marshall is named number one of 30 EMpower Top Ethnic Minority Future Leaders. The EMpower … [Read more...]
Sodexo hosts its first Inclusion Conference
Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, hosted its first Inclusion Conference at the stadium of Everton Football Club last week (4 May). Regional chair Sean Haley welcomed more than 250 delegates at Goodison Park, who listened to a variety of of external and internal speakers focused on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In the morning, Chris Bray, CEO Sports … [Read more...]
Sodexo marks UN International Day for People with Disabilities
Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, is marking tomorrow's United Nations International Day for People with Disabilities by highlighting its partnership with Havering College. Three young people from Havering College are now employed by Sodexo at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, having taken part in an intern partnership. Sodexo has made a global commitment all of its … [Read more...]
Sodexo leads the charge in pay gap reporting
Audit of over 38,500 employees reveals current gender pay gap is over 50% lower than ONS figure of 18.1%. Five months ahead of the launch of new government legislation for transparency into gender pay equality, Sodexo, a leading services company, has revealed an overall gender pay gap of 7.65%. The gender pay gap is a measure designed to show the difference between the … [Read more...]
Sodexo’s Slattery in LGBT top 100 third year running
The Country President of Sodexo Ireland was named among the Top 100 influential LGBT business leaders for the third consecutive year today (25 October). Margot Slattery is number 61 on the list compiled by Outstanding, a not-for-profit professional network for LGBT executives and their allies, and published in association with the Financial Times. Margot drives awareness … [Read more...]