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.
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.
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Read, or download (HR Employment and EDI 2024) our free guide to 8 issues that will impact on HR and operational Managers in 2024
Concrew Training are pleased to announce a new course specifically for staff – menopause awareness
This course is part of our 3 hour short taster course series. £595+vat for up to 14 participants.
Please enquire about delivery to larger groups. We can deliver this course, live, in a lecture style on your video conferencing platform
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.
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
In doing so it helps managers approach EDI in an effective way rather than adopt, often well intentioned but fundamentally flawed, ways of working
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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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.
Concrew Training are pleased to announce updates to their popular suite of courses on equality, diversity and Inclusion.
find out more at:
https://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/equality-diversity-overview
Halfords, the UK’s largest retailer of motoring and cycling produces has been ordered to
The above follows a long and somewhat complex tribunal appeal involving attendance, risk assessments, disciplinary action, appeals and resignation.
It provides a very useful case study for HR and Operational management; illustrating just how easy it is for issues to escalate when insufficient attention is paid to EDI
Concrew Training offer high value training in EDI for staff at all levels
Read the full case history via the links below
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