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| Equal Opportunities Statement |
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The company wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities in employment and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex being married or disability. We believe that it is in the company's best interests, and those of all who work in it, to ensure that the human resources, talents and skills available throughout the community are considered when employment opportunities arise. To this end, within the framework of the law, we are committed, wherever practicable, to achieving and maintaining a workforce, which broadly reflects the local community in which we operate.
Every possible step will be taken to ensure that individuals are treated equally and fairly and that decisions on recruitment, selection, training, promotion, and career management are based solely on objective and job related criteria.
To uphold this policy, the Company will undertake the following:
In recruitment
- Ensure that job titles are not sex biased and are accurate.
- Avoid over inflated or unnecessary job criteria in person specifications when recruiting new employees.
- Check that job requirements are really necessary to do the job and are not reflections of traditional practices that may be operating to the disadvantage of men or women, minorities, the disabled or older people.
- Guard against sex/race stereotyping, particularly in illustrations, advertisements and recruitment literature.
- Ensure that recruitment methods used are fair to all potential applicants and do not effectively screen out minorities or members of one sex.
- Ensure that interviewers avoid questions that could be construed as discriminatory.
Training and Promotion
- Check that all staff and minorities, regardless of their sex, are being trained and developed along with other employees and have the same opportunities for advancement within the Company.
- Examine selection criteria for training and promotion opportunities to ensure they do not indirectly discriminate.
- Monitor the progress of all trainees against the equal opportunities policy and its requirements.
- Ensure that equal standards are being operated when undertaking performance reviews and assessments.
- Where appropriate encourage all staff and minorities, regardless of their sex, to put themselves forward for training and promotion.
Victimisation and harassment
- Investigate all complaints of discrimination and harassment thoroughly however minor they may considered to be at first sight.
- Take disciplinary action against any employee found to have discriminated against another employee on the grounds of sex, race, ethnic origin, religious beliefs or disability.
- Take disciplinary action against any employee found to have harassed another employee on the grounds of sex, race, ethnic origin, religious beliefs or disability.
Publication of this Policy
- Ensure that all employees, especially new employees and those in positions of authority, are made aware of this Policy.
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