Useful Terms - diversity in the workplace
Equality
is the state or quality of being essentially equal: of being allowed to have equal access and opportunity in society.
Equitable in use
allowing for a wide range of people with diverse abilities
Flexibility in use
and working arrangements leading to improved work/life balance.
Genuine occupational requirements
are allowed where it can be shown, in very limited circumstances, that there is a genuine and determining requirement for someone to be treated differently on prohibited grounds, for instance an employer can prove a genuine requirement of a job is a specific gender.
Harassment
is when a person subjects another to unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. This includes actual or perceived conduct.
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- 30% of employees will experience a mental health problem at some point during their working life
- 9.8% of the UK population of working age have depression or anxiety
- 79% of people diagnosed with depression feel unable to tell colleagues at work for fear this would have a detrimental impact on them