Employment and Equality
Below you will find useful resources and information on employment, equality and diversity.
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Accessing Members Resources
Some resources are for Tai Pawb members only and you will need a password to access them. If you are a Tai Pawb member and need details of the password or copies of documents in a Word version or alternative format please contact helpline@taipawb.org or call 029 2105 7957.
Tai Pawb Good Practice Briefings
- Reasonable Adjustments Employment (2013)
- Spotlight on positive action (2012)
- Creating a fit for purpose equality opportunity policy (2011)
- Gender Equality in the Workplace (2010)
- ‘Raising the profile’ – Housing as a career for people from minority ethnic backgrounds (2008)
- Managing diversity – people make the difference (2008)
- Race equality in employment (2006)
Presentations from Tai Pawb events
- Fair Share: Equality and Diversity Issues in Shared Housing (2017)
- Importance of Diversity in Leadership – National Assembly for Wales (2015)
- Diversity and Leadership – Newydd Housing Association (2015)
- Women in Construction – Wave (2014)
Housing Sector Initiatives:
Useful Information
- Employer Toolkit: Guidance for Managers of Older Workers (Age Action Alliance and Department for Work and Pensions)
- Factsheet: Dispelling Common Myths around Older People in the Workplace (Business in the Community)
- Older learners in the workplace Research Report (City and Guilds Centre for Skills Development, 2011)
- The Employment Relations Challenges of an Ageing Workforce (Acas, 2011)
- Age Audit Tool (ACAS)
- Gen Y and the World of Work (Hays, 2013)
- Apprenticeships (Welsh Government)
- From Care to Independence: Improving employment outcomes for care leavers, (Reed in Partnership, 2011)
- Reasonable adjustments for disabled workers (Gov.UK)
- Access to Work (Gov.UK)
- Disability discrimination: Key points for the workplace (ACAS)
- Leading on Mental Wellbeing. Transforming the role of line managers (Business in the Community, 2016)
- Taking care of business Employers’ guide to mentally healthy workplaces (Mind)
- Employing disabled people and people with health conditions (DWP, 2015)
- Help and support for young disabled people to find and stay in work (DWP, 2015)
- Hidden Impairment National Group
- Do-IT Profiler
- Carers Rights Guide 2016 (Carers Wales, 2016)
- A Woman’s Place in Housing (Chwarae Teg, February 2016)
- Working Patterns in Wales: Gender, Occupations and Pay (Wave, 2014)
- Gender-neutral job evaluation schemes: an introduction guide (EHRC, 2014)
- Equal Pay Guidance from EHRC
- Maternity, Paternity or Shared Parental Leave and pay employer toolkit from EHRC
- Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in the labour market participation, skills and geographical inequalities (JRF, 2015)
- Race discrimination: key points for the workplace (Acas)
- Race at Work (Business in the Community, 2015)
- Pregnancy and Maternity related discrimination and disadvantage, First findings: Surveys of Employers and Mothers (HM Government, EHRC, 2015)
- Pregnancy and maternity questions and answers, Legal overviews for employers and employees (EHRC)
- Breastfeeding on returning to work (Acas, 2014)
- Managing redundancy for pregnant employees or those on maternity leave (Acas, Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2012)
- Shared Parental Leave: a good practice guide for employers and employee (Acas 2015)
- What’s it got to do with you? 10 reasons why you should fill in those funny box things at the end of forms (Stonewall)
- Role Models, Being Yourself, Sexual Orientation and the workplace (Stonewall)
- Gay People, Your Business, What small employers need to know (Stonewall)
- Sexual Orientation, Employer Toolkit (Stonewall)
- The double glazed glass ceiling: Lesbians in the workplace (Stonewall)
- The recruitment and retention of transgender staff Guidance for employers (Government Equalities Office, 2015)
- Supporting a student or member of staff who is transitioning (Equality Challenge Unit)
- Equality Challenge Unit Trans Staff Case Studies: Rachel’s story and Emma’s story
- Transgender Equality Report (House of Commons, Women and Equalities Committee, 2015)
- Tips on how to be a trans ally – Written by the Trans* Form Group
- Changing your name and gender: the data protection implications (Information Commissioner’s Office Blog Post by Steve Wood, 2014)
- Communicating Commitment to Trans inclusion. The Trans inclusion journey and communicating commitment to all staff (Stonewall, 2016)
- First Steps to Trans Inclusion (Stonewall, 2016)
- Changing for the Better – How to include Trans People in your Workplace, A guide for employers (Scottish Transgender Alliance and Stonewall Scotland, 2012)
- A Transgender Primer – An introduction to transgender people and some of the issues they face
Organisations that can provide further information:
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Please note the material in this section is for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Tai Pawb is not responsible for the content of external resource.