Equalities and Diversity
The Council policy is to ensure that no job applicant or
employee receives less favourable treatments as a result of a
protected characteristic.
The full policy is available by clicking on the following
link
Selection criteria and procedures are kept under review to
ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the
basis of their relevant abilities and merits.
Applications are encouraged from disabled people who have the
necessary abilities for the post. Person specifications
define the qualifications, experience and other skills required in
the post, and only include those factors which are necessary and
justifiable on objective criteria for the satisfactory performance
of the job. Adverts are drafted to avoid any form of
discrimination. Employees will not be discriminated
against in respect of pay and conditions of service. This
applied equally to any benefits, facilities or services which are
provided by the authority.
Training opportunities will be equally available to all
employees. Employees will receive training to help them
to perform their job effectively. Training, education
and vocational courses leading to qualifications relevant to their
career will be open to all, in order to assist them to achieve
their full potential.
The Council has various family friendly policies and practices
including flexi time, job sharing and career breaks aimed at
improving access to work. Any other form of flexible
working arrangements will be considered. Chief Officers
will not refuse unreasonably applications for flexible working, but
will retain discretion about the final decision.
The Council does not permit sexual or other forms of harassment
of its employees. It will investigate all complaints of
harassment. No-one who brings a complaint or grievance
in good faith under the policy will be subject to victimisation or
any other detriment as a result of their actions.
Employees who fail to observe the Equalities Policy will be
subject to the disciplinary procedure.
The Employment of Disabled People
Disabled applicants will be given full and fair consideration
for all types of vacancies. Wherever possible, the
Authority will retain the services of an employee who is, or
becomes disabled and, where necessary, provide retraining and
redeployment. Disabled employees will be given equal
opportunities with other employees for training and career
development and promotion.
The Race Equality Scheme and Disability Scheme are for public
consultation and Melton Borough Council welcomes any comments and
feedback on the schemes especially from people with disabilities or
from BME backgrounds.
For further information please click on the links below.
Melton
Borough Council Equalities Policy,
Disability
Equality Scheme,
Race Equality
Scheme,
Gender Equality
Scheme,
Please click on the link below to see the Council's Employment
and Recruitment Monitoring
Employment
and Recruitment Monitoring for 2006/07 to 2009/10
Equality Action Plans
To see a list of Equality Impact Assessments (EIA's) completed
in relation to the Revenue Budget for 2011/12, please refer to the
Policy, Finance and Administration Committee page of 26 January
2011. The EIA's are listed as Appendix C to Item 10.
The Equality Action Plans shows the assesmnet of functions
provided by the following services.
Civil
Contingencies & Emergency Planning,
Customer
Services - Environmental Helath,
Customer Services - Revenues & Benefits,
Customer Services - Social & Economic Development,
Customer
Services - Street Scene,
HR, Communications
& Democratic Services - Democratic Services,
HR, Communications &
Democratic Services - HR & Communications,
HR, Communications & Democratic
Services - Legal,
ICT Services,
Policy
& Performance,
Regulatory Services -
Building Control,
Regulatory Services -
Conservation,
Regulatory Services -
Development Control,
Regulatory Services -
Environmental Health,
Regulatory Services -
Licensing,
Social &
Economic Develpment,
Social &
Economic Develpment - Revenues & Benefits,
Street Scene &
Environmental Services,
Leicestershire District Councils Equality and Diversity
Partnership
Melton Borough Council is one of seven District and Borough
Councils in Leicestershire that came together in August 2010 to
form the Leicestershire District Councils Equality and Diversity
Partnership. The Partnership has recently put together a
Single Equality Scheme which outlines how it will as a Partnership
promote equality and diversity in everything that it does from
delivering fair and accessible services through to recruiting and
employing staff. To access more information about the
Partnership and to comment on the draft Single Equality Scheme,
please click on the link below.
http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/leicestershire_district_councils_equality_and_diversity_partnership
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