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Equality Impact Assessments Training

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Getting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion right is seldom easy. Equality Impact Assessments make a big difference, but many people do see them as a bureaucratic burden.  Our latest course shows a simple easy to adopt approach and demonstrates it in action using your own organisations policies and procedures.  Contact us today for more information. 

Carers leave act 2023 made simple

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The Carers Leave Act 2023 gives employees a statutory right to unpaid leave to care for a dependant. It comes into effective in April 2024.

HR teams and Operational Managers need to be aware.

Concrew Training offer a free guide on this important legislation.

Our courses on Employment Law and EDI explain all this and much much more.

Menopause Training from £595

£595 3 hour short courses

Our Menopause Awareness Training course costs a total of just £595+vat, when ordered as an online 3 hour short course for up to 14 people.

We can also deliver to larger numbers, or face to face on your premises.

Read the course overview HERE.

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Remember we can adapt content and delivery to meet your needs

EDI Training Course updated

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We have now updated our Equality Diversity and Inclusion training, EDI Training, to include latest legislation and changes to the “Nine Protected Characteristics”

Annual EDI Training is essential for all leaders, managers and HR teams.

Find out more HERE

It provides a raft of practical information,good practice and the do’s and don’ts in key areas, such as

  • Sexual Harassment
  • Bullying and other forms of Harassment
  • Menopause
  • Neurodiversity
  • Transgender and Trans vocabulary
  • Racialism, Antisemitism and Xenophobia
  • The WOKE Agenda
  • Misogyny

In doing so it helps managers approach EDI in an effective way rather than adopt, often well intentioned but fundamentally flawed, ways of working

EDI Training – EDI Demands More than Words

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There have been several EDI Tribunal cases reported recently, with fines in the region of £50k to £60K.

One has to ask, why in this day and age do EDI issues reach tribunal stage?

Digging deeper it appears that too many Employers may be paying only lip service to EDI and equality legislation.

It is very easy to write and publish policies and procedures BUT unfortunately that, in many businesses is where they end.

Filed away on a hard drive, left forgotten on a website. For many organisations many of their front of house policies are more about PR and appearing compliant than actually being compliant.

If a policy is to be effective is needs to be trained out to all appropriate staff. Staff need to understand what is and what is not acceptable and have the confidence to report breaches;

Managers and leaders need to understand how to respond when a breach is identified or reported.

Not acceptable here policies demand more, far more than just words on a piece of paper

 

 

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landmark employment law menopause ruling

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All HR teams and Employers need to follow the outcome of the Leicester Employment Tribunal Appeal case between Maria Rooney (supported by the EHRC) and Leicester City Council.

In February 2022, the tribunal ruled that Ms Rooney was disabled by virtue of her symptoms of menopause combined with symptoms of stress and anxiety.

This ruling was appealed and a final ruling is expected within the next 14 days, this ruling will decide whether menopause symptoms can amount to a disability for the purposes of the Equality Act.