Question

Summarise equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination principles, workplace relations regulations and legislation, and other legislation associated with recruitment, selection and induction. (Minimum of 300 words)

Answer 1

Equal employment opportunity is a government policy that requires that employers do not discriminate against employees and job applicants based upon certain characteristics, such as age, race, color, creed, sex, religion, and disability.

Anti-discrimination

Workplace discrimination Directive 2000/78/EC establishes a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, which forbids discrimination based on religion, belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. The principle of equal treatment means that there shall be no direct or indirect discrimination on any of the grounds outlined above. So as to ensure consistence with the rule of equivalent treatment in connection to people with incapacities, sensible convenience will be given. This implies managers need to take proper measures to empower a man with a handicap to take an interest in business or to experience preparing. Racial and ethnic discrimination The general principle of anti-discrimination is safeguarded at the EU level by Directive 2000/43/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin. The Directive covers areas such as education, social protection (social security and healthcare), social advantages and access to and supply of goods and services and goes beyond access to employment and self-employment (covered by Directive 2000/78/EC outlined above). Under the Directive, all types of immediate or backhanded separation on the grounds of race or ethnic beginning are precluded. Circuitous separation might be as less great treatment of the individual or gathering of individuals concerned. Roundabout segregation can likewise occur as a demonstration that may have all the earmarks of being impartial yet is probably going to have a horrible result for a man or an explicit gathering of individuals. The only possible exception here is when race or ethnic origin constitutes a fundamental professional requirement. The Directive does not cover discrimination based on nationality.

Equality between men and women in the workplace is guaranteed by three pieces of EU legislation. The Equal Pay Directive Directive 75/117/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women. This Directive determines that a business isn't permitted to pay people doing likewise work or work of equivalent esteem contrastingly because of their sex. On the off chance that an occupation capability or assessment is utilized to decide the compensation, it must utilize similar criteria for people and it must be structured so as to not segregate between the two genders. The Equal Treatment Directive 76/207/EC on the execution of the rule of equivalent treatment for people as respects access to business, professional preparing and working conditions. This Directive ensures equal access to all types and levels of vocational guidance and training and equal working conditions, including dismissal. A woman cannot be dismissed on grounds of pregnancy or maternity. However, the Directive does not apply to occupations where the sex of the employee is a determining factor. Both the Equal Pay and the Equal Treatment Directive require the Member States to take the necessary measures to protect employees who have filed a complaint of unfair treatment against their employer against dismissal. The Equal Social Security Directive Directive 86/378/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes. This Directive applies to individuals from the working populace including independently employed people, people whose movement is hindered by ailment, maternity, mishap or automatic joblessness and people looking for business and to resigned and incapacitated laborers. The Directive does not apply to individual contracts, schemes having only one member and salaried workers. Information about equal pay, equal treatment and equal social security is available from the European Commission’s Directorate General Employment and Social Affairs.