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Annual Report of the Ombudsman 2008 (text version)

2.10 Equality

The Office's Equality Committee reports to the Management Advisory Committee on a twice-yearly basis in terms of its activities in relation to:

i) Monitoring equality in the workplace

ii) Identifying and addressing equality issues arising under the provisions of the Equality Act 1998, which precludes discrimination with respect to all aspects of recruitment, selection and employment on the basis of nine grounds. These are:

1. gender,
2. marital status,
3. family status,
4. age,
5. disability,
6. race,
7. religion,
8. sexual orientation and
9. membership of the traveller community,

(iii) Promoting positive actions,

(iv) Preparing awareness days,

(v) Building an ethos of equality in the workplace, and

(vi) Promoting the commitment of all management and employees to equality generally.

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