Europe – Recruiters welcome plans to drop EU gender quota

EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding was yesterday forced to scrap the controversial proposal to introduce a 40% quota for women on boards across Europe due to lack of support within the European Commission.
The UK’s Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) had criticised plans to introduce a mandatory quota system and welcomed the announcement that plans had been put on hold.  
There are signs that the voluntary approach is starting to work with a record 16% of women now on the boards of FTSE 100 companies.

Penny Winter – The UK Knack Group

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