Diversity
Hertel declares its intention to be an equal opportunities employer; it will ensure equality of opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, disability or employment status.
Hertel will work to eradicate discrimination and prejudice and create equality of opportunity in its role as an employer.
The following groups experience particular inequality:
- Black people and people from other minority groups
- Disabled people
- Lesbians and gay men
- Women
Other people also experience discrimination and disadvantage because of their age, social class, religious beliefs, and cultural practices, language, domestic, caring and child care responsibilities, HIV status. A programme of action will be developed to make this policy fully effective and will address the needs of these people in these and other oppressed groups.
As regards employment, this principle will apply to the recruitment, training, pay, conditions of employment, work allocation and promotion of staff in all parts and at every level of the Company.
Hertel will also seek to apply these principles to all work undertaken by external sub-contractors.
Hertel will ensure implementation of this policy by monitoring the situation in consultation with appropriate trade unions and minority groups.
Hertel will promote, as envisaged in Section 71 of the Race Relations Act, good race relations between all persons of different racial groups within the Company and will adopt policies that positively seek to encourage this.
