German law makes it difficult for employers to gather
information on the diversity of their workforces, but the new EU
Corporate Reporting Sustainability Directive could make it
easier.
Nowadays many organisations have set themselves the goal of
promoting a diverse workforce. Diversity monitoring could be a
useful first step in this direction, but raises legal concerns in
Germany. However, this could soon change due to new European legal
requirements.
Diversity monitoring in Germany
Diversity monitoring, that is the targeted collection of
information on diversity characteristics of the workforce (such as
migration background, religion, disability, social origin etc.), is
increasingly becoming a focus of corporate management in Germany.
In the Anglo-American world, these processes are quite common due
to legal requirements. Therefore, German subsidiaries of
international corporations are increasingly confronted with
enquiries about the diversity of their
