Equality Champion Briefing: The Reasonable Steps Defence

Event date: 26 August 2010 - 2:00pm
Cost: Free
Contact: Margaret Thompson
Phone: 028 9087 7777
Location: NICVA , 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15 2GB

Briefing Aim: To provide Senior Managers & HR Professionals with a succinct overview of the main actions required to provide evidence to potential stakeholders that your organisation is seeking to promote equality of opportunity and a good and harmonious working environment.

Learning Objectives: Participants will have the opportunity to consider:

1. A famous Industrial Tribunal decision outlining an example of how an employer can successfully present a ‘reasonable steps defence’ in the event that one of their employees acts in a discriminatory manner.
2. The key equality indicators for promoting equality of opportunity and for promoting a good and harmonious working environment [Unified Employment Guide Chapters 4 & 5].
3. The benefits of developing an Employment Equality Plan and mapping it against the supporting Equality Champion Seminar Programme for the Voluntary Sector.

Associated Outcomes:  Participating employers will also be given the opportunity to access a one to one policy review consultation with an employment equality specialist and a tailored programme of both role specific training for key staff functions and HR specialist best practice workshops.

There is no charge for this seminar.   If you would like to book a place please phone Margaret Thompson or email: margaret.thompson@nicva.org