Equality issues within the Hospitality industry

Welcome

Welcome to the Hospitality industry session on equality issues During this session you will get to grips with:

The Equality Act Protected Characteristics Role models within Hospitality British values

You are required to complete all the research, interactive resources in this session and then the quizzes

What is the Equality Act.

The Equality Act

A new Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. The Equality Act brings together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single Act. Combined, they make up a new Act that provides a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all.The Act simplifies, strengthens and harmonises the current legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society.

Legislation

Nine main pieces of legislation have been merged and each one has protected characteristics

The nine main pieces of legislation that have merged are:the Equal Pay Act 1970the Sex Discrimination Act 1975the Race Relations Act 1976the Disability Discrimination Act 1995the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006the Equality Act 2006, Part 2the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007

Protected Characteristics

Who is protected by the Act?

Everyone in Britain is protected by the Act. The “protected characteristics” under the Act are;

Age Disability Gender reassignment Marriage and civil partnership Pregnancy and maternity Race Religion and belief Sex Sexual orientation

Making Britain fair and equal for all

Equality Act 2010 • Helps many of the different groups of people in England,

Scotland and Wales who sometimes get treated unfairly.• Women and men. • People of different races.• Disabled people. • People with different religions or beliefs or with no religion or

belief.• People of different ages. • Lesbian, gay and bisexual and straight people. • People who have changed their sex. • The Equality Act and the many other kinds of equality work

the Government is doing will make Britain a more fair and equal place for everyone.

The Socio-economic Duty

Family background or where a person is born still affects their life. For example, a child from a rich family often does better at school than a child from a poor family, even if the poorer child is cleverer. This is sometimes called socio-economic inequality.The Equality Act tells public bodies that they will have to think about what they can do to make their services more helpful to poorer people.

Positive action

The law already lets employers do some kinds of positive action. Job adverts can be aimed at people of different races, women or from any of the other groups from the nine protected characteristics. if an employer wants to make their workforce more diverse because they do not have any, or enough, people from those groups. Employers can train women, people of different races or people from some other groups to give them more chance of getting a better job with the employer. They can only do this when they have, for example, too few people who are from an ethnic background or too few women.

Gapped handout

Everyone in Britain is protected by the Act. The “protected characteristics” under the Act are;Age, Disability , Gender reassignment , Marriage and civil partnership , Pregnancy and maternity , Race , Religion and belief , Sex , Sexual orientation

Family background or where a person is born still affects their life. For example, a child from a rich family often does better at school than a child from a poor family, even if the poorer child is cleverer. This is sometimes called socio-economic inequality.

The Equality Act brings together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single Act. Combined, they make up a new Act that provides a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all.

Disability; diversity and inclusion

Watch the video and read the supporting text on how a major company is Creating A Culture of Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity

Active role models

Michael CainesA two star Michelin

chef despite losing his arm

Protected Characteristics

UK’S first female chef and restaurant ownerRead the article on Romy Gill

Protected Characteristics

Gender equality

Matching statements quiz

Slide 5 of 12

1. To Create a Culture of Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity

1. Our partners are diverse not only in gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion and age, but also in cultural backgrounds, life experiences, thoughts and ideas.

2. The recruitment crisis in London’s restaurant industry

2. could be eased by employing more people with disabilities

3. More financial support is required 3. For female entrepreneurs setting up their own business

4. over the past five years 4. the proportion of women in senior positions has increased, while more than 50 per cent of Unilever's graduate recruits are women.

5. the main problem facing the industry is that; 5. there are far fewer females in higher positions in the hospitality sector than there are males and only six per cent of board director positions are held by women

British values

The four fundamental British Values are: • Individual Liberty & freedom of speech • the Rule of Law, • Democracy • Mutual respect for & tolerance of other religions (and none)

PDF

Complete the PDF on British Values and upload it to the SOLA pack

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