Equality Act 2010 - Helping You Understand the Changes

Equality Act 2010 - Helping you understand the changes

Training Session

Find out how the Equality Act 2010 will impact on your organisation. This half day training course will help you understand all the key changes.
Delegates who may have limited experience of Equality and Diversity and would welcome the chance to discuss and understand what the Equality Act means for them by contextualising learning through practical case studies will find this course of particular benefit.

Business need

The new Equality Act will repeal and consolidate most current discrimination law within a single Act. Most of the provisions in the Act will take effect in October 2010.
The Equality Act marks a step change in Equality legislation; changes include the introduction of the concept of ‘protected characteristics’, the advancement of equality through positive action, changes to current discrimination definitions plus the introduction of the concept of ‘dual discrimination’. Together with the extension of Tribunal recommendations plus the introduction of a new single equality duty for public bodies - to replace the existing 3 duties - your business or organisation will need to be aware of how these changes will impact, and what you need to do to implement them.
Along with the new Act will come a new Code of Practice and non-statutory guidance produced by the EHRC. Acas has been a key EHRC stakeholder, contributing to and being involved in the development of the Code and the guidance. The Code will simplify things for employers trying to comply with the law with all strands of equality now covered in one code.
This half day course will cover the main provisions of the Act, the impact it might have on your business and through practical case studies help you identify the areas of your existing policies and procedures you will need to review

Training suitable for

CEOs, Board Members, MDs, HR professionals; employee representatives and all Managers and supervisors.

Session outline

 Background to the changes

 Codes of practice

 Protected Characteristics

 Changes to the definitions of discrimination

 Harassment including extension to third party harassment

 Disability Discrimination

• Changes to disability discrimination
• Pre Employment Health Questions
• Positive action – including recruiting and promoting
• Monitoring and impact assessing
• A Single Equality Duty
• Gender Pay Reporting
• Secrecy
• Recognising and measuring pay gaps

 Tribunal awards

 Effect on current policies and procedures