Equality Act 2010 Compliant.

Having an Equal Opportunities Policy in your business sets out your position clearly to everyone, that you respect the law and that all individuals can expect to be treated fairly.

It is a legal requirement that both before and during employment, individuals should not be discriminated  against in terms of the protected characteristics of disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, age, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership or the fact that they are a part-time worker or fixed-term employee.

The Equality Act covers the same groups that were protected by existing equality legislation – age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity. These are now called ‘protected characteristics’.  Whilst having been designed to make the law simpler, it now makes it much easier for individuals to bring complaints of discrimination if they feel their employer has treated them unfairly.

This policy is set out over the following sections:

- Placeholders for those who are responsible for the policy

- Scope and Purpose

- Types of Discrimination

- Recruitment & Selection

- Staff Training

- Disability Discrimination

- Breaches of the Policy

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