Hiring and Skills Working Group

Overall goal

Support ‘good work’ and take steps to make our workforces representative of London’s communities at all levels of our organisations 

Key deliverables

  • Help more Londoners from underrepresented backgrounds into ‘good work’ paying at least the London Living Wage   

  • Make progress in closing our gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps  

Work programme highlights

  • Adopting more inclusive recruitment processes including more proactive outreach to underrepresented communities  

  • Offering more supported internships  

  • Creating more inclusive workplaces from the perspective of both disability and ethnicity, with a particular focus on retention and progression  

  • Achieving London Living Wage accreditation (where not already in place)  

  • Achieving the Mayor’s Good Work Standard accreditation (where not already in place)  

  • Driving up apprenticeship creation, including through transfer of unspent apprenticeship levy 

Progress measures

  • No. of apprenticeships paid at least the London Living Wage in the last financial year  

  • No. of supported internships in the last financial year   

  • No. of people from target populations recruited in the last financial year   

  • Amount in £x of Apprenticeship Levy pledged in the last financial year   

  • Gender pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time  

  • Ethnicity pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time   

  • Disability pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time   

  • Achievement of Disability Confident or the next level of the scheme  

  • Achievement of London Living Wage accreditation (and no. of staff whose pay is uplifted as a result)  

  • Achievement of Good Work Standard accreditation