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Employer training sessions for Sept - Dec 2023
• New webinars now available
• Convenient online sessions
• FREE & can be credited to CPD
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Online Webinars
We are now be providing a number of training sessions as online webinars. These will focus on a number of important equality issues for employers and will expand to cover additional topics over the coming months.
Paul Oakes, Manager of the Equality Commission's Advisory Services Team said, "We are looking forward to delivering these new webinars which are aimed at both the private and public sectors. Equality considerations apply to employers of all sizes and it's important that they know their responsibilities and rights, to safeguard their business, staff and customers by complying with the law."
Please note: These webinars are based on Northern Ireland equality law and are therefore of relevance, primarily, to employers and service-providers who employ staff in Northern Ireland or who provide services there.
Reasonable steps defence
REASONABLE STEPS DEFENCE
This webinar is designed to give participants an understanding of the statutory defence that they have taken all reasonable steps to prevent acts of unlawful discrimination in their workplace.
Session overview:
- Overview of the reasonable steps defence in practice
- Discussion of the key tools which may be used to promote equality of opportunity and a good and harmonious working environment
- An examination of the concept vicarious liability
- Examples of good practice
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Tues 12 Dec, 11am - 12noon |
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*You can request to be on our reserve list. We will notify you of any cancellations and can run additional sessions if there is sufficient demand
Managing flexible working in a post pandemic context
MANAGING FLEXIBLE WORKING IN A POST PANDEMIC CONTEXT
This webinar will examine the practice of flexible working in Northern Ireland and the challenges to ensure equality of opportunity with new working practices such as hybrid working and increasing requests for flexible working from employees.
Webinar overview:
- What is meant by flexible working (hybrid working is one example)
- Business benefits of adopting flexible working to attract talent from under- represented groups
- Flexible working and its relationship with employment and equality law
- Promoting good practice
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Thurs 9 Nov, 11am - 12noon
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Managing harassment and bullying at work
MANAGING HARASSMENT AND BULLYING AT WORK - PROMOTING AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE
- Delivered by the Equality Commission NI and Labour Relations Agency
Harassment and bullying at work continue to be an unpleasant fact of life for many employees. Employers can work to change this by putting in place policies and procedures to create and help sustain inclusive workplaces. The Equality Commission and Labour Relations Agency have produced guidance (pdf) that outlines some steps that you can take to help build an inclusive workplace.
This webinar will examine the types of behaviour that can constitute harassment and bullying and the impact of these behaviours in the workplace. It will highlight the legal position in relation to harassment and bullying as well as issues liability, and what actions employers can take to promote diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Webinar overview:
- Types of harassment
- Bullying and harassment behaviours
- Differences between bullying and harassment
- Legal context
- Nature and consequences of workplace bullying and harassment
- Developing effective policies and procedures
- Building an inclusive workplace
- Equality Commission workplace research
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Thurs 16 Nov, 11am - 12:30pm
Thurs 14 Dec, 11am - 12:30pm
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Promoting equality in employment for people with disabilities
PROMOTING EQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
This webinar will examine how employers can promote equality and employment for disabled people with an emphasis on the reasonable adjustment duty.
Webinar overview:
- Barriers to recruitment and retention of those with disabilities
- Effective strategies to reduce and minimise these barriers
- Types of discrimination
- The reasonable adjustment duty
- Reasonable adjustment examples
- Positive action
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Tues 14 Nov, 11am - 12noon
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Promoting age equality: what can employers do?
PROMOTING AGE EQUALITY: WHAT CAN EMPLOYERS DO?
This seminar is designed to give employers an awareness of age discrimination in the workplace and explores some of the key issues in relation to recruiting and retaining employees.
Webinar overview:
- Scope of the legislation
- Types of Discrimination
- Objective Justification
- Recruitment
- Benefits based on length of service
- Retirement
- Redundancy
- Good practice recommendations
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Thurs 7 Dec, 11am - 12noon |
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Fair employment monitoring workshops
MONITORING WORKSHOPS
These sessions will advise employers on how to comply with their legislative duty to collate and retain monitoring information for inclusion in the annual monitoring return.
Session overview:
- Discuss completion of the annual monitoring return
- Address employer queries
Workshops are limited to 16 places, book now to avoid disappointment.
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Wed 8 Nov, 9:30am - 11:45am |
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Wed 22 Nov, 9:30am - 11:45am |
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Wed 6 Dec, 9:30am - 11:45am |
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Article 55 Review - Key aspects
ARTICLE 55 REVIEW - KEY ASPECTS
To provide support around completion of the three yearly, Article 55 Review, we are offering an overview of some key aspects of the review and the opportunity for you to ask questions relating to the review process.
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It is intended that we will cover the analysis and evaluation of:
Session overview:
- Fair Participation as an underpinning theme running throughout the review process
- Identification of geographical catchment areas for your organisation and related comparator ranges. These are key to the assessment of fair participation and as benchmarking tools, help the analysis and evaluation of the following points
- Workforce Composition
- Workforce Flows
These aspects of the review are interlinked.
Our expectation is that you may be working towards completing an Article 55 Review for your organisation. That being the case, we hope you will be in a position to identify questions arising from your initial work on your review. Please have these questions to hand and we will address them during the meeting or shortly after.
Please note, the time allocated for this webinar is approximate. Workshops are limited to 16 places, book now to avoid disappointment.
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Wed 15 Nov, 9:30am - 11:30am |
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Wed 13 Dec, 9:30am - 11:30am |
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*You can request to be on our reserve list. We will notify you of any cancellations and can run additional sessions if there is sufficient demand
Public Sector: Equality screening - training video
PUBLIC SECTOR: EQUALITY SCREENING - TRAINING VIDEO
Section 75 is the law, and it's good governance – public authorities must consider equality and good relations when revising and developing all their policies.
Screening is one of the key tools to enable public authorities to fulfil their statutory obligations and mainstream these duties into policy development.
To assist with this process, the Equality Commission has produced a t
raining video on equality screening for those who have responsibility for developing or reviewing policies.
We would be grateful if you would share this with your policy colleagues and hope that they will find it a useful resource to refresh on the key aspects of equality screening when they are developing or reviewing policies. If, after watching the video, there are areas you would like to discuss, please get in touch. We're also interested in any feedback you or your colleagues have on this resource. Email us at
enquiries@equalityni.org
Event: More and Better Jobs for Disabled People
The Equality Commission, in partnership with the NI Union for Supported Employment (NIUSE) and Belfast City Council City Deal Project, invites you to 'Making It Work - more and better jobs for disabled people'.
Venue: Belfast Castle, Antrim Rd, Belfast
Date: Tues 5 December, 9:30am-12:30pm
We will be presenting useful guidance and information on positive action measures in recruitment and procurement, pre-employment training and work trials for disabled people, social value measures, ring fencing jobs and retention, and lived experiences of disabled people finding employment.
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QUESTIONS?
Please contact the employer training team on 028 90 500 600 or email training@equalityni.org
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