Do your staff experience discrimination and diversity issues? How do you know?

Did you know that over the past year, the Acas helpline has dealt with nearly 50,000 calls on discrimination and diversity issues in the workplace? Do you know where discrimination is most likely to arise in the workplace? Are your staff confident in dealing with allegations of discrimination? Are you aware of new free guides from Acas to help employers and managers get to grips with these issues?

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Old face job ad 'discrimination'

The BBC has found that the government’s Universal Jobmatch website, and Reed – one of the UK’s biggest employment agencies – are likely to be breaking anti-age discrimination laws. How do their adverts compare to yours?

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Is gender segregation ever legal?

How would your staff respond to a request from a visiting speaker for gender segregation in the audience? What do you do if students ask for gender segregation at a meeting? How do you balance the rights of students with religious beliefs against gender discrimination? Did you know the Equality and Human Rights Commission has published new guidance to help staff understand their legal obligations in this area?

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Talent not tokenism: Achieving the benefits of Equality and Diversity in the workforce

Our working environments are more diverse than ever before and that brings many tangible benefits. But how do you genuinely advance equality and tackle issues and tensions in the workforce, such as tensions between sexual orientation and faith? How do you deal with the ‘fear factor’ and how do you create an environment where staff feel confident to talk about E&D issues?

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Is banning staff from having a ‘visible’ tattoo discrimination?

'Heavily inked stars such as Rihanna and David Beckham have led a huge rise in the popularity of tatoos’ reported the Evening Standard on 25 Sept 2014. But how do you decide on the suitability of tattoos in the workplace? Are there any equality rights for having a tattoo? Are employers entitled to ask staff to ensure tattoos are not visible? How do we balance rights between a professional image and a socially diverse workforce?

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