The RAF's head of recruitment resigned after 'refusing to follow a diversity order to prioritise women and ethnic minority candidates over white men'
The group captain, who heads the RAF's 450-strong recruitment team, reportedly told her boss in an email on August 4 that she thought allocating slots on RAF training courses based only on gender or ethnicity was "unlawful".
as Group Captain Recruitment & Selection, based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire, but is still a serving RAF officer, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.Read more:The Group Captain said in her email two days later that the order to load women and ethnic minorities alone was “not actioned”. However, an employer may legally take some steps to improve workplace diversity, known as positive action.
He said that Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, who heads the RAF, had asked his team to "pause" offering training slots to all candidates while they consider how they might take 'positive action' to assist improving diversity levels on various training courses in the year to March 2023.
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