Equal Opportunities Policy

PURPOSE

This procedure has been established to define the system used by PEM Engineering & Construction Limited (PEMEC) to outline the Company’s position in relation to the management of Equal Opportunities.

SCOPE

The requirements of this document apply to every manager and employee who has a personal responsibility for the implementation of the procedure.

DEFINITIONS

The Company considers all forms of discrimination to be unacceptable in the workplace. The Company is committed to providing equal opportunities throughout all areas of employment, including recruitment, remuneration, training and promotion of staff. The Company is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment or is unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of disability, gender, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, race, spent convictions, colour, religion, nationality or ethnic origin in accordance with the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, Disability Discrimination Act 2005, Civil Partnership Act 2004. The Company will not ignore, or treat lightly, grievances or complaints from employees on the assumption that the individual is oversensitive about discrimination, discrimination can occur by action, omission, orally or in writing by gesture of innuendo.

RESPONSIBILITY

The Director has responsibility for the implementation of this procedure.

PROCEDURE

Recruitment & Promotion
The Company will ensure that information about vacant posts will be circulated as widely as possible, so that it may reach as wide a group as possible regardless of race, religion, sex, colour, age, marital status, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation.
No recruitment literature or advertisements will imply a preference for any one group of applicants unless there is a general occupational qualification, which limits the post to a particular group, in which case this must be clearly stated. Where a particular qualification is required, the Company will (as far as reasonably practical) state that a fully comparable qualification obtained is as acceptable as a UK qualification.