Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
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15 Minutes -
For all staff
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UK
People may feel they treat colleagues equally while their actions are experienced differently. This 15-minute refresher revisits the value of diversity and the need to treat people fairly and equally regardless of personal traits, and helps staff identify the protected characteristics and the forms of discrimination that equality law prohibits.
Awareness fades and teams change, so what was a shared standard eighteen months ago may not be one now. The behaviours that produce claims are usually small and repeated rather than dramatic. A short annual refresher keeps the standard current across the workforce at proportionate cost, and forms part of the evidence an employer needs when defending a discrimination or harassment claim.
What you’ll learn in
this course
- Appreciate the value of diversity, and the need to treat people fairly and equally irrespective of their personal traits
- Identify the protected characteristics and types of discrimination under the Equality Act
- Recognise what harassment is and the different forms that it may take in the workplace
- Understand the actions that you can take to challenge discrimination and harassment
- Avoid discriminating and harassing behaviour in the workplace
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Equality and Diversity E-learning Course
Discrimination claims usually begin with something that felt minor at the time: a comment, an assumption, a decision explained badly. Staff who understand the categories recognise the risk earlier and challenge it sooner. A short, workforce-wide course establishes the shared standard that everything else in your equality programme depends on, and gives managers a common reference for the conversations that prevent escalation.
