PSA Group UK’s managing director Alison Jones has been named as winner of 2020’s Autocar’s Great Women in the British Car Industry awards event.
Auto Trader has launched a new series of webinars in partnership with the Automotive 30% Club, in order to promote greater diversity in the automotive sector.
Car dealer groups are at risk of losing talented female staff who take time out to have children and then choose to resume their careers in other sectors.
AvailableCar chief executive Michael Bell has said that the used car supermarket group is looking forward to the “successes” a more diverse workforce can bring after joining the Automotive 30% Club.
A judge has ordered John Mulholland Motors to pay a couple £2,500 after he found that demands for them to confer in English during the sale of a car had "created a degrading and humiliating environment".
JCT600 head of commercial vehicles Beryl Carney was awarded the Barbara Cox Woman of the Year Award earlier this year in recognition of her work to transform the fortunes of the Bradford-based AM100 retailer’s Volkswagen van centres.
Lookers has celebrated AAC Apprenticeship Awards recognition, after its programme was acknowledged as the most diverse in the country.
Lookers has welcomed another 150 apprentices to its programme and launched a brand-new traineeship program.
Sytner Group has launched a group-wide Diversity Forum initiative to encourage and promote equal career opportunities within the business.
Carwow has partnered with the Financial Times to champion women in the automotive industry with its first ‘Navigating a Male Dominated Industry’ seminar.
IT firm Fujitsu is set to share valuable lessons for motor retailers on how to ensure firms have a diverse workforce able to manage the rapid changes to our sector.
Over 50 HR directors, managing directors and chief executives from automotive retail and manufacturing brands agreed that the industry needed to “wake up and diversify” at Auto Trader’s diversity and inclusion seminar.
Managing directors and chief executives from the automotive retail sector will “challenge and test best practice” surrounding diversity and inclusivity when they meet at a one-day collaborative seminar hosted by Auto Trader and Ennis & Co.
Following the release of its Gender Pay Gap Report, Auto Trader has pledged its commitment to attracting women to higher paid technology roles.
Lookers has become one of the first motor retailers to actively promote equality in its workforce by becoming a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
