New ACAS Guide: Sex Discrimination - Key Points for the Workplace
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has published a new guide "to help employers and managers identify, tackle and prevent sex discrimination in the workplace".
ACAS confirmed that its helpline answered 7,175 calls related to sex discrimination from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. The guidance is therefore designed to help employers understand the basics around equality law and the types of sex discrimination as defined within the Equality Act 2010.
The guide provides best practice advice on the following key areas of employment where sex discrimination can happen:
- recruitment
- pay, terms and conditions of employment
- promotion opportunities
- training opportunities
- dismissals
- redundancies
It also gives advice on how employees should raise complaints and how they should be handled by employers.