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Mitie has been awarded Silver Status by the Inclusive Employers Standard, an evidenced-based accreditation tool for inclusion and diversity, in recognition of its commitments to promote Equality Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) across its business.
In order to receive the accreditation, organisations must demonstrate how they are delivering against six pillars of inclusion and diversity: Engage, Equip, Empower, Embed, Evaluate and Evolve. Having been measured across all six pillars, Mitie has been recognised with silver status after its first submission.
Sim Sian, Head of ED&I, Mitie, said: “Gaining the Inclusive Employers Standard Silver Accreditation is a huge achievement and highlights the great work we are doing to embed Equality, Diversity & Inclusion into our culture.
Nearly two-thirds of white-collar professionals (60%) have admitted to ‘rage applying’ for a new job since the beginning of the year – with a toxic workplace culture (56%) being the primary motivating factor.
The trend – which has seen a spike since New Year appraisals – occurs when professionals retaliate to a bad day at work by firing out multiple applications to new job roles.
Of those who admitted to rage applying in the past six months, almost half (40%) stated that they had applied to multiple new roles within a short space of time.
Walters People director Janine Blacksley said: “By and large it continues to be a candidate-driven market – with more jobs than people available – so ‘rage applying’ is really something that most employers cannot afford to happen.
“Interestingly it is not issues relating to pay or progression that is creating this knee-jerk reaction – but the work environment itself, something well within the control of the employer.”
Prime Facility Services has been awarded a five-year contract with Wrekin Housing Group.
The cleaning contract covers a range of sites for Wrekin, who provide affordable homes for over 28,000 people across Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin & Staffordshire.
Anita Francis, Area Manager with The Wrekin Housing Group said: “We were delighted to welcome Prime Facility Services as our new cleaning contractor. Their submission met all our requirements and we have been very impressed with all their work so far. The quality of their cleans are very high, they work safely and it’s fantastic to work with a local company that share our values.”
Premier Technical Services Group Ltd (PTSG) has been asked to deliver a range of access and safety equipment and systems at Everton F.C’s brand-new £500m stadium.
PTSG Access & Safety Ltd will be providing safe access to the lower flat roofs by providing almost 1km of aluminium free-standing guardrail to the perimeters for general maintenance access, with the added protection of Latchways ManSafe beyond the line of the guardrail to provide safe access to areas beyond the safe protection of the guardrail. PTSG’s work commences in March and the contract will run through to the summer of 2023.
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