Legislation in support of equality and diversity Assignment

Legislation in support of
equality and diversity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
P3 Identify the range of legislation designed to implement equality, diversity and fair
treatment in public services.........................................................................................................1
P4 Explain the importance of understanding unconscious bias, prejudice and discriminatory
behaviour in the public services..................................................................................................2
M1 Investigate the role of advisory services in the relation to equality, diversity and fair
treatment in public service employment.....................................................................................3
D1 Evaluate the impact of unconscious bias, prejudice and discrimination on the individuals,
victims and perpetrators within the public services sector, providing examples of the response
of public sector organisations to legislative requirement............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Legislation is the act or process of commencing any of the new law with the country. It is
necessary because it commences any of the new law within the country, just to maintain the
peace and silence. The most important thing is that legislation is the only whose main role is to
commence any of the new law as per the requirement of situation which arises on regular basis.
In this particular project, various law and regulation will be discussed and they will be related
with equality that should be given to each and every person at any place. Proper investigation
will be done on legislation that how many of the law and regulation are their which has been
commenced by legislative body.
MAIN BODY
P3 Identify the range of legislation designed to implement equality, diversity and fair treatment
in public services.
There are number of laws and regulation which do commences on regular basis. It is
necessary that all of those laws must be followed as per the given criteria. In this field, the
legislation of UK has been working really well due to which chances of discrimination has been
reduces and every individual are being treated equally and that is one of the positive sign for the
nation. The legislation relating to equality, diversity and inclusion of fair treatment in public
service helps or even protect from discrimination on the basis of age, sex, ethnic, religion,
disability. It has been clearly mention in the law that everyone must be treated equally and for
that number of laws and regulation has been commenced.
Equality Act 2010 is the law which has been enforced just to make sure that people are
not being discriminated on the work place or within the wider society. It is one of the law which
has replaced the number of law such as Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relations Act 1976
and even Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Equality Act 2010: guidance, 2019). If any of the
person is found guilty by breaching the term and condition of equality act, 2010 then legal
actions are being taken upon the person have committed the civil wrong.
Employment Equality Regulation 2003 is among one of the problem which tells each
and every people who work in the premisses of office must be treated equally and they must get
the chance to show their talent. This law says that individual should not be discriminated on the
grounds of religion or belief and sex. This is one of the law which helps to maintain better
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working environment within the organisation duet to which people don't need to face any kind of
issues while working within the premisses of office.
Human Rights Act 1998 is defined as the law and regulation which says about the rights
that must be given to any of the individual while living within the nation. Everyone has the
rights to enjoy their life and because of that they must get the chance to do any sort of activity
which is not against the law and ethics (Puhl, Suh and Li, 2016). It has been helping to make
clear that what are the rights that any of the person can enjoy. Whenever people do no get the
chance to enjoy their rights then they have the option that they can raise question within the
premisses of court where it try to clear out the issues.
Sex Discrimination Act 1975 is the law which tells that any of the people should not be
discriminated on the basis of gender. The main purpose of legislation to commence this law was
just simple as they want to clear out the problem which is being faced by both male and female.
This is law which has been commenced by legislation which has given the guidelines that male
and female employee should be treated and even they should get equal opportunity to prove
themselves that even they can also do better for achieving the goals of an organisation.
This are some of the laws and regulation which has been commenced by the legislation of
UK and that have been working successfully as graph of treating equally to every has been
moving towards upwards day by day. If in case any of the person fails to comply the law then
legal actions can be taken.
P4 Explain the importance of understanding unconscious bias, prejudice and discriminatory
behaviour in the public services.
It has necessary that people should be given equal rights and opportunity but every time it
is not that easy and possible to give them and due to which there are some of the situation where
government have to declare their decision which is totally biased. To commence any of the new
law and policies, it is necessary that government need to understand that what are those
circumstances where decision are biased.
Unconscious bias is the situation where supreme authority try to understand the problem
in detail and at the time of declaring the result they declare those decision which are not
favourable and totally against the situation (Stephenson, 2017). This kind of decision create
unnecessary problem due to which it never becomes easy for any of the person to accept in it. If
proper work can be done to check that what are those situation where biased decision are being
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declared then chances of implementing the appropriate law and regulation is high. Prejudice is
an unfavourable opinion where people express their thoughts without having the detail
knowledge of any of the particular case or situation. Here, people favour the people or group
who they personally know or well known within the market place. While talking about
discriminatory behaviour, there are most of the cases in which authorised person declare
decision of own which are not correct and even it create negative influence within the society.
All of this terms are not favourable for the society because it do create various kind of issues to
which number of people have to suffer in their life.
It is necessary to understand about all of the given term because it create negative
influence within the society and doesn't all people to live happily. If it will be possible to
understand about every situation that what are the main reason behind discrimination then new
law and policies can be formed and they will have a positive impact upon society. There are
number of laws for providing fair decision and treating everyone equally but still it has been
found that those laws are not being followed and that is the main reason to understand that what
are the chances which can be done if biased results can be found (Klein, 2016). Discrimination is
mainly done in the society and office premisses and it is important to understand that why it is
being done within the office so that new laws for providing equal rights to male and female
employee's. This is even important because it will help to find the major reason behind the
discrimination and biased decision.
M1 Investigate the role of advisory services in the relation to equality, diversity and fair
treatment in public service employment.
In any of the situation, the role of advisory is must crucial because it try to judge the
situation so that new laws and regulation can be formed for the purpose of obtaining the better
and provide equality to the society. Advisory service will have to overview of office premisses
that what are those condition and cases where discrimination is being done and what they are
being done. The advisory service have the power to file the case against those employer who
does discrimination with their employee's either on the basis of caste, gender or working ability.
Advisory services is the one who can help out the people to understand that what are those laws
and regulation which has been commenced for their personal benefit by giving them the
knowledge about different act which has been enforced for their betterment.
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Advisory committee has the big role to play as they will need to take legal action against
those employer who doesn't give fair and equal opportunity to their employee's for showing their
skills and talent. They are the one who need to make sure that proper laws and regulation is
being applied which is helping overall to maintain the situation. They will have the role to play
where they will need to understand that how are disable people is being treated by the employer
and whether they are being paid fair amount of wages or not and if not what is the main reason.
Even they are the one who is required to give legal solution to the employer or employer who
seeks it. Also, they have the to refer people who cannot or do not wish to go down to the road to
conciliation or mediation services which helps to resolve the problem (Equality Advisory and
Support Service, 2019). In addition, they have the role to guide any of the organisation that what
are those policies which they are required to do and what is needed to be done if any of the law
and policies are not being followed. They are the one who give proper guidance to employer that
how they are required to treat every employee's.
D1 Evaluate the impact of unconscious bias, prejudice and discrimination on the individuals,
victims and perpetrators within the public services sector, providing examples of the
response of public sector organisations to legislative requirement.
In present scenario, if any of the person suffers from the problem of unconscious bias,
prejudice and discrimination then person or victims have to face various kind of problem and
that is never an easy things for them to perform well. The most important thing is that people
will not be able to perform well and even they will not have the idea and courage to perform
better within the given condition. This are the things which demotivate the employee's and that is
the things which create unnecessary problem for the individual. This are the problem which is
mostly found in the area of public sector industry and that has the negative impact on business
organisation. Things are required to be changed in public organisation and that can only be done
with the help of laws and polices which has been commenced. For example: TESCO is one of
the pubic company but still they are required to face various kind of issues within their
organisation because they the one who doesn't follow the rules and regulation due to which they
faces number of problem(Modood, 2016)(Bowl, 2018). Even senior staffs doesn't try to solve the
problem and that is one of the reason that performance of company has been reducing day by
day. It is necessary that company should try to improve their performance and for that it is
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necessary that they must try to focus that how they can give equal opportunity to every
employee's as that will help to motive the employee's and that will improve the performance too.
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CONCLUSION
From this respective, it can be clearly understood that legislation is one of the most
important topic which need to be followed by each and every person. Legislation takes the
responsibility to commence the law as per the requirement of situation due to which effective
results can be obtained. There are number of act like Equality Act, 2010, Sex Discrimination Act
1975 and many more which helps to obtain better result for judging every people equally.
Advisory services are the one whose role is to check that whether rule and regulation are being
followed are not which has been enforce by legislation and if not how it is needed to be
followed.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Bowl, M., 2018. Differentiation, distinction and equality–or diversity? The language of the
marketised university: an England, New Zealand comparison. Studies in Higher
Education. 43(4). pp.671-688.
Klein, U., 2016, January. Gender equality and diversity politics in higher education: Conflicts,
challenges and requirements for collaboration. In Women's Studies International Forum
(Vol. 54, pp. 147-156). Pergamon.
Modood, T., 2016. Muslims, Religious Equality and Secularism 1. In Contesting Secularism (pp.
69-86). Routledge.
Puhl, R. M., Suh, Y. and Li, X., 2016. Legislating for weight-based equality: national trends in
public support for laws to prohibit weight discrimination. International journal of
Obesity. 40(8). p.1320.
Stephenson, J. H., 2017. Managing Diversity in the Caribbean. Global Encyclopedia of Public
Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. pp.1-6.
Online
Equality Act 2010: guidance. 2019. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance>
Equality Advisory and Support Service. 2019. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/contact-us/equality-advisory-and-support-
service>
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