Discrimination
- Created by: hayden Francis
- Created on: 18-05-14 09:32
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- Discrimination
- Anti-discrimination policies
- Raising awareness
- Challenging people who discriminate
- advising other organisations
- Promoting and protecting equality
- Promoting positive role models
- Definitions
- Policies
- Plans made by government or organisations to try to tackle certain issues
- Legislation
- Set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parliament
- Anti-discrimination policy
- Laws and actions designed to challenge discrimination and prejudice
- Equal opportunity
- Principle that all people have the same opportunities in life
- Policies
- 2 types of discrimination
- Indirect
- Tends to be more subtle and may be unintentional
- Direct
- Someone is intentionally treated less favourably because of their gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, religion or belief
- Indirect
- Equal opportunities
- Race Relations act 1976
- It concerns discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin in relation to employment, the provision of goods and service and education
- Equality act 2006
- Created the Equality and human rights commission
- Sex discrimination act 1975
- Protects men and women from discrimination on the grounds of their sex or because they are married
- Equality Act 2010
- merged many pieces of anti-discrimination legislation into one act
- Equal pay act 1970
- Prohibits less favourable treatment of either men or women in the terms of pay and conditions of employment
- Race Relations act 1976
- Anti-discrimination policies
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