Great Britain: retail giants join forces to advocate for and defend diversity

Eight retail giants, including the John Lewis Partnership and Sainsbury's supermarkets, have come together to found this landmark "Diversity in Retail" (DiR) network, which represents some nearly 400,000 employees, and which aims to create a group-based template in a bid to increase diversity and inclusion at all levels in the retail industry.
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All the DiR founding member companies have committed to implementing concrete actions so that ‘everyone can bring their ‘whole self’ to work.’ DiR is looking to create a unique collaborative network where groups can share best practices in the areas of diversity and inclusion. DiR’s mission is also to support companies in the sector to launch similar projects in order to create new solutions that can benefit at least 1 million employees by 2025. Among the preferred measures are ‘championing’ us

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