Equality,Diversity and Discrimination Law programme

Business Equality and Diversity Performance
EqID brings a fresh, professional outlook to helping your business achieve its strategic equalities and diversity performance for business and customer service.

EqID is a specialist equalities, diversity management and training consultancy. We specialise on the public duty legislation and have helped a number of medium and large public organisations to achieve compliance with the UK equality legislation. The Business Equality Framework informs our approach to working with the diverse range of business and companies across sectors. 

EqID has successfully developed and delivered be-spoke equalities  training to meet the specific needs of customers and has delivered a range of awareness-raising and briefing seminars to senior executives, Board members and elected officials. This is an aspect of our service with which has given greatest satisfaction to our customers and which defines our service standard and our relationship with customers.

Discrimination legislation
We provide overview of the current UK and EU discrimination legislation and the importance in enhancing business efficiency and the ‘bottom line’ through bespoke briefings and detailed training and learning events. Areas covered include:

The Business case for Equalities and Diversity

Age Discrimination Regulations

Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Duty

Gender Equality Act and Gender Equality Duty

Religion or Belief Regulations

Race Discrimination Act and Race Equality Duty

Sex Discrimination Act

Equality and Diversity for Business
Exploring the business case for equality and diversity, aimed at business managers and senior executives. The programme will explore the CBI Business case strategy for small businesses and will help businesses to develop that standard policies that are needed to comply with the equality and diversity business case.
 
Public Duty Requirement
The Race, Disability and Gender equality duty places specific statutory duty on all public authorities. The programme will help managers and HR professionals in health, education and local authorities to get in-depth understanding of processes that will need to put in place to become compliant with these legislation.

Equality Impact Assessments
Participants will get an in-depth overview of the systematic process for assessing and eliminating inherent discrimination from internal policies and procedures to meet the requirement of the Race, Disability equality and Gender equality duty on organisations. The programme will also enable participants to get an overview of the role, and statutory functions of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, and the implications for businesses.

 Discipline and Grievance Handling
The 2002 Employment Act, Statutory Discipline Procedure will be reviewed. This seminar will be beneficial for manager and HR professionals and those developing or reviewing their internal procedures to comply with the Act.

Recruitment and Selection Skills
The Equality legislation and their implications for the interview and selection process will be explored. The interview procedure, recording, person specification and the interview and selection process will all be explored within the context of the legislation for age, sex, disability and race discrimination. This programme is essential and will help employers, manager avoid the risk of discriminatory practices that might arise because of inadequate training and information.

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