Equality comes from “equal opportunity” this is in place to make everyone meet the terms with the anti discrimination legislation. This protects people from being discriminated against, on the basis of group membership i.e. sex. While diversity is the recognition of individual differences and that people are not all the same.
2006 age legislation/ effects
1) Widens people to pick from
2) Keeps people in employment if able to work
The stereotypes that we tend to hold about young people is that, they may be a little bit reckless and unreliable, however with the old age people, the stereotypes we tend to hold about them, is that they may not be as efficient as the middle age people, also they can fall sick at any point in time, due to their health, this paints a picture of them being unreliable.
B&Q success is down to the amount of customers and staff they have. The company greatly believes to make their workforce as diverse as possible, and mix up the talent, right from the highest power of the hierarchy right to the bottom, more that 1200 of B&Q staff speak various different languages. The company continues to promote, equality of opportunity to prevent barriers from people working for them.
To conclude equality is a major thing in the work place of today, and is seen as very important, however this doesn’t mean that, there is equality everywhere. For example, a British Airways worker was punished for not taking off her crucifix, while other employees from different religions are allowed to be the religious symbols’, so even though the act is in place, we still need to question, how effective the equality act is.
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