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1.’Employers must adjust working arrangements or the physical features of premises to remove any disadvantage to disabled people’
-Why this statement concerning disability law is not true?
2.What does corporate diversity policy mean?
3. What’s the difference between a “positive action” and “positive discrimination”?
Employers have to make reasonable adjustments. What’s reasonable depends on each case. For example, a small company with a couple of employees on a first floor office would not have to install an elevator to allow a disabled person to have access. In the case of a large employer, installing an elevator might be regarded as reasonable.
Diversity means having a very wide range of employees: male/female, old/young, different social classes etc etc.
Employers can, in some situations, take steps to help certain disadvantaged groups access employment or training. This is called positive action. For example, an employer could organise an open day for people from a particular ethnic background or place ads in specific publications if they’re under-represented in the employer’s workforce. This is legal (in the UK).
Positive discrimination means treating one person more favourably than another on the ground of that individual’s sex, race, age, marital status or sexual orientation. In general this is illegal (in the UK).
So having attracted more candidates from an ethic minority they cannot then be favoured in the recruitment process as that would discriminate against other candidates.
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