EC Meeting Papers July 2018

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Introducing Equalities

EA93

Days: 2

Date: 16 - 17 October 2018

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

EA44

Days: 2

Date: 19 - 20 February 2019

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

EA65

Days: 2

Date: 11 - 12 June 2019

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

This two day course, held at Quorn, is ideal for new Equalities Reps and for all activists, who seek to advance equality in the workplace. Despite the passage of the 2010 Equality Act, unions still need to be aware of bias, and hidden bias, in the workplace. We need to constantly ask ourselves, are all those with protected characteristics being treated fairly? This course aims to encourage an understanding of a whole range of different Equalities themes, characteristics and campaigns. It will look at the organising, campaigning and consciousness raising elements within the Equalities strand, and will suggest ways in which Trade Unions can continue to seek to move

• The Definition of Equalities within the Labour Movement • Defining Protected Characteristics • The promotion of equal rights & equal employment rights for all members • Evolving strategies to combat harassment • Direct and Indirect discrimination • Equal Pay • The 2010 Equality Act

• The Equality duties of public bodies • Best Equality Practice in the Workplace

those agendas forward. The course will cover:

Tutor: H. Nolan & I. Lightfoot

Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

EA99

Days: 1

Date: 20 November 2018

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

Trade Unions and community organisations around the world need to put steps in place to eradicate the problem of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. In order to do this, there needs to be widespread education so that everyone understands how to recognise sexual harassment; to appreciate the full extent of the impact that it has on those who are affected by it; and to challenge both the perpetrators, themselves, and the particular workplace cultures that encourages and enables its proliferation.

This one-day, awareness raising event on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace will look at the latest research by the TUC, Everyday Sexism and the European Commission of Human Rights reports on the subject to understand why this is such an endemic, insidious, and persistent problem.

Start time: 10 am Finish time: 4pm

Tutor: H. Nolan

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