EC Papers September 2018

Introducing Equalities

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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

• 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

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

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

FOUNDATION SKILLS

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

those agendas forward. The course will cover:

Tutor: H. Nolan & I. Lightfoot

ADVANCED SKILLS

Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

EA99

Days: 1

Date: 20 November 2018

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

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.

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.

ARTS &

CULTURE

Start time: 10 am Finish time: 4pm

Tutor: H. Nolan

LGBT+ Rights in the Workplace

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Days: 1

Date: 3 May 2019

Location: Quorn Grange Hotel

As a consequence, this course seeks to both raise awareness and to offer practical solutions to the problems and challenges facing trade unionists. The course will include discussion of: • LGBT+ terminology and language (including intersectionality & queer theory) • Specific problems of LGBT+ prejudice and discrimination • Government legislation both national and international • How to make your workplace inclusive • International solidarity • Workplace practices and safeguards • Pension rights and family leave arrangements

This one day course, held at Quorn, has been designed – in conjunction with the Leicester LGBT Centre – in order to provide participants with an introduction to, and a firm understanding of, the issues facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans people in the workplace. LGBT+ rights are a trade union issue, like any other, and a healthy union – just like a healthy society – looks to respect difference. GFTU affiliates also cover members working across the globe and in countries where LGBT+ rights are frequently violated or ignored (indeed homosexuality is still considered a crime in more than 70 countries). Therefore, our unions have a duty to respond to the conditions and the experiences of their members who are being sent to work in countries where their relationships are deemed to be illegal.

Tutor: Andrew Bolland / Leicester LGBT Centre

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