HR deserves respect

SIR – Contrary to the general opinion of your correspondents (Letters, June 22), the agenda of HR departments is not to make sure that every “woke” bandwagon is ridden roughshod through company strategy.

In recent weeks, I have arranged support for a member of staff with severe mental health challenges, organised members of the team to travel to America for training and development, created a training day focused on managing constant industry change, and researched and pulled together a shift procedure to ensure fair and consistent weekend cover.

During the pandemic, my job included interpreting and communicating the ever-changing Covid restrictions to ensure that our people were able to work on-site and operate as safely as possible.

Principally, the HR team is responsible for ensuring that people are treated with respect and in a fair and equitable manner.

“Woke” we are not.

Fiona Fairbrother

Paisley, Renfrewshire