Equality, Diversity and Fair Treatment in Public Service Organizations

Unit 3 Equality, Diversity and
Fair Treatment

INTRODUCTION
 Equality, diversity and fair treatment are the basis of a legal system. Each law of
English legal system is framed on the basis of these three elements.
 Formation of any law while taking into account equality, diversity and fair treatment
helps in development of a law free from discriminations among people and leads in
providing fair and equal treatment to each person of the country.
 The present assignment includes a power point presentation that provides detailed
information regarding various legislations that has been framed in the UK in order to
maintain equality, diversity and fair treatment in a public service organisation.
 Further, it includes importance of impact of unconscious, bias and discriminatory
behaviour in a public sector along with some examples.

Identifying various legislation designed for implementation of
equality, diversity and fair treatment in the public sector
Equality, diversity and Fair treatment
 The term equality is related with providing equal and fair treatment to each person working within the
business organisation. As per the English legal system, each person have right to be different from others.
 Further, the legal system also provides duty to each person not to discriminate with any other person. On
the other hand, diversity refers to bringing together persons from different cultures and beliefs into an
organisation
Legislation based designed for implementation of equality, diversity and fair treatment Equality Act
2010:
 Equality Act 2010:
 The Equality Act 2010 was framed for the purpose of implementing equality among the person from all
over the country .
 It contains a range of laws, rules and regulations that provides guidelines of performing any activity that
leads in ensuring the maintaining equality among the population and avoiding discriminatory behaviour as
well.

CONTI....,
Employment equality (Age) Regulations 2006
Implementation of this law in the public service organisation prevents its employees
from being discriminated on the ground of their age.
Rather, each employee should provide equal opportunities on the basis of their
qualification, experience and employment efficiency.
Employment equality (sex discrimination) Regulations 2005
 This act was framed by government of UK in order to eliminate discriminatory
behaviour among the population on the basis of gender.
 The Employment equality (sex discrimination) Regulations 2005 contains a range of
laws and rules that provides several guidelines to be complied within the
organisation so as to prevent the employees from getting discriminated on the basis
of their sex.