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Want to stay on the right side of the law? We support businesses and public authorities and help them to promote good practice.
 
 

Monitoring

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Monitoring


All registered employers must monitor the composition of their workforce. This means keeping a record of your staff’s community background and sex.

What does Community Background mean?


This is whether an individual is from the Protestant community or the Roman Catholic community in Northern Ireland, or neither.

Although not a legal requirement, we also recommend monitoring by age, disability, race, marital status, civil partnership status, sexual orientation, and those with and without dependents. Monitoring these additional grounds is  good practice and a good way of getting a clear picture of what is happening in your organisation. It can identify patterns that you might not otherwise notice, and ensure that unintentional discrimination is not taking place.
 

How should this information be gathered?
 

The best method for recording this information is to use an equal opportunities monitoring form questionnaire that directly asks individuals to specify which areas apply to them.

Download the following:
 


These forms will enable you to comply with your duties under Fair Employment legislation.

What should be monitored?

 

What should I do next?

 

Does this comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

 
 

If you require any advice or assistance in completing your annual monitoring return contact us:
 

 

ECNI
< Employer registration
< Registration, monitoring & review

 

 

We believe that helping you promote and encourage good equal opportunities practice is as important as enforcing the equality law. Every year, the Commission helps hundreds of businesses and organisations comply with equality laws.

We recognise that employers' needs differ across sectors and businesses – so we tailor our services to meet employers’ varying needs.

We run workshops each month on how to monitor staff and can meet with you individually if this more helpful.

If you would like to attend please phone 028 90 500600 or email training@equalityni.org. Workshops are free of charge.

Training

 

In-house training

 

Speaking engagments

 

Employer news eZine

 
 

 
This is a selection of publications that are most relevant to monitoring:     
 

Publications for Recruitment Companies
 



Public Authorities:

 



Additional information is available on our registration and monitoring webpage
 

 
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