How can you show equality?

How can you show equality?

This means:

1. Setting clear rules in regards to how people should be treated.
2. Challenging any negative attitudes.
3. Treating all staff and students fairly and equally.
4. Creating an all-inclusive culture for staff and students.
5. Avoiding stereotypes in examples and resources.
6. Using resources with multicultural themes.

What is equality in the workplace?

Equality in the workplace means equal job opportunities and fairness for employees and job applicants. You must not treat people unfairly because of reasons protected by discrimination law (‘protected characteristics’). For example, because of a person’s sex, age or race.

What are the responsibilities of the employee under the Equality Act?

Employees have a duty not to discriminate against any of their colleagues because of any of the protected characteristics. Diversity and equal opportunities policies place a positive duty on all employees to comply with the policy and to ensure that colleagues are treated with respect and dignity.

What are my responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010?

The Equality Act 2010 protects you against discrimination in the workplace at all stages of employment. This includes recruitment, employment terms and conditions, training, pay and benefits, promotion and transfer opportunities, dismissal or redundancy.

How does Equality Act protect individuals?

The Equality Act is a law which protects you from discrimination. It means that discrimination or unfair treatment on the basis of certain personal characteristics, such as age, is now against the law in almost all cases.

What is covered under the Equality Act?

The Equality Act is a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally …

What are the 9 protected characteristics under the Equality Act?

Protected characteristics These are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

What are the legal requirements for equality and diversity?

They are:

• age.
• disability.
• gender reassignment.
• marriage and civil partnership.
• pregnancy and maternity.
• race.
• religion or belief.
• sex.

What are the main points of the Equality Act 2010?

The characteristics that are protected by the Equality Act 2010 are:

• age.
• disability.
• gender reassignment.
• marriage or civil partnership (in employment only)
• pregnancy and maternity.
• race.
• religion or belief.
• sex.

What are the three main purposes of the Equality Act?

We welcome our general duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity; and to foster good relations.

How does the Equality Act 2010 promote anti discrimination?

Anti-discriminatory practice is fundamental to the ethical basis of care provision and critical to the protection of people’s dignity. The Equality Act protects those receiving care and the workers that provide it from being treated unfairly because of any characteristics that are protected under the legislation.

What are the grounds for discrimination?

3 (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been …

Who Cannot be discriminated against?

According to Section 2302(b) of Title 5 of the United States Code, any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend or approve personnel actions may not: Discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or political affiliation.

What are some examples of indirect discrimination?

Something can be indirect discrimination if it has a worse effect on you because of your:

• age.
• disability.
• gender reassignment.
• marriage or civil partnership.
• pregnancy and maternity.
• race.
• religion or belief.
• sex.