EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES POLICY STATEMENT
O’Tooles Swimming School is an equal opportunities employer. Our aim is to ensure that:-
1. No job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, colour, race or ethnic origin, religious or political beliefs, Trade Union activity, age, disability or unrelated criminal conviction, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
2. As an employer, the Company will seek actively to employ staff from traditionally disadvantaged groups. Selection criteria and procedures are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. At each facility we seek to reflect our customer base and their needs through the provision of a diverse workforce.
3. All employees are given the opportunity and encouraged to progress within the organisation and the Company will actively assist traditionally disadvantaged minority groups to benefit from its own services by establishing close relationships with them in order to identify their needs. O’Tooles Swimming School will thus benefit from a wider range of perspectives, ideas and contacts.
4. In hiring Contractors and other agencies to work for it, the Company will be mindful of its commitment to equality of opportunity.
5. The Company is committed to making this Policy fully effective. To ensure that it is fully and fairly implemented, practices and procedures of the Company will be regularly reviewed to ensure that they do not discriminate directly or indirectly and changes will be made where it is found that such discrimination is, or has been taking place.
6. Our Equal Opportunities Policy and its implementation procedures have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of all legislation including but not exclusively:-
Race Relations Act 1976
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Equal Pay Act 1975
Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978
Employment Act 1982
European Union Directives
Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
Further details of our Equal Opportunities Policy can be found by contact our Support Office on 01344 898330.
