equality issues within hospitality

1. Equality issues within the Hospitality industry

2. Welcome
Welcome to the Hospitality industry session on equality
issues
During this session you will get to grips with:
 The Equality Act
 Protected Characteristics
 Role models within Hospitality
 British values
You are required to complete all the
research, interactive resources in this
session and then the quizzes

3. What is the Equality Act.
The Equality Act
A new Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. The
Equality Act brings together over 116 separate pieces of
legislation into one single Act. Combined, they make up a new
Act that provides a legal framework to protect the rights of
individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all.
The Act simplifies, strengthens and harmonises the current
legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which
protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair
and more equal society.

4. Legislation
Nine main pieces of legislation have been merged and each one has
protected characteristics
The nine main pieces of legislation that have merged are:
the Equal Pay Act 1970
the Sex Discrimination Act 1975
the Race Relations Act 1976
the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003
the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003
the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006
the Equality Act 2006, Part 2
the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007

5. Protected Characteristics
Who is protected by the Act?
Everyone in Britain is protected by the Act. The “protected
characteristics” under the Act are;
Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Marriage and civil partnership
Pregnancy and maternity
Race
Religion and belief
Sex
Sexual orientation

6. Making Britain fair and equal for all
Equality Act 2010
• Helps many of the different groups of people in England,
Scotland and Wales who sometimes get treated unfairly.
• Women and men.
• People of different races.
• Disabled people.
• People with different religions or beliefs or with no religion or
belief.
• People of different ages.
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual and straight people.
• People who have changed their sex.
• The Equality Act and the many other kinds of equality work
the Government is doing will make Britain a more fair and
equal place for everyone.

7. The Socio-economic Duty
Family background or where a person is born still affects their life. For
example, a child from a rich family often does better at school than a
child from a poor family, even if the poorer child is cleverer. This is
sometimes called socio-economic inequality.
The Equality Act tells public bodies that they will have to think about
what they can do to make their services more helpful to poorer people.

8. Positive action
The law already lets employers do some kinds of positive
action.
Job adverts can be aimed at people of different races, women
or from any of the other groups from the nine protected
characteristics. if an employer wants to make their workforce
more diverse because they do not have any, or enough, people
from those groups.
Employers can train women, people of different races or
people from some other groups to give them more chance of
getting a better job with the employer. They can only do this
when they have, for example, too few people who are from an
ethnic background or too few women.

9. Gapped handout
Everyone in Britain is protected by the Act. The “protected characteristics” under the
Act are;
Age, Disability , Gender reassignment , Marriage and civil partnership , Pregnancy and
maternity , Race , Religion and belief , Sex , Sexual orientation
Family background or where a person is born still affects their life. For example, a child
from a rich family often does better at school than a child from a poor family, even if
the poorer child is cleverer. This is sometimes called socio-economic inequality.
The Equality Act brings together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single
Act. Combined, they make up a new Act that provides a legal framework to protect the
rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all.

10. Disability; diversity and inclusion
Watch the video and read the supporting text on how a major
company is Creating A Culture of Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity

11. Active role models
Michael Caines
A two star Michelin
chef despite losing his
arm

12. Protected Characteristics
UK’S first female chef and restaurant owner
Read the article on Romy Gill

13. Protected Characteristics
Gender equality

14. Matching statements quiz
Slide 5 of 12
1. To Create a Culture of Belonging, Inclusion
and Diversity
1. Our partners are diverse not only in gender,
race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability,
religion and age, but also in cultural
backgrounds, life experiences, thoughts and
ideas.
2. The recruitment crisis in London’s restaurant
industry
2. could be eased by employing more people
with disabilities
3. More financial support is required 3. For female entrepreneurs setting up their own
business
4. over the past five years 4. the proportion of women in senior positions
has increased, while more than 50 per cent of
Unilever's graduate recruits are women.
5. the main problem facing the industry is that; 5. there are far fewer females in higher positions
in the hospitality sector than there are males and
only six per cent of board director positions are
held by women

15. British values
The four fundamental British Values are:
• Individual Liberty & freedom of speech
• the Rule of Law,
• Democracy
• Mutual respect for & tolerance of other religions (and none)

16. PDF
Complete the PDF on British Values and upload it to the SOLA pack

17. Congratulations on completing this session!
We hope you found it really useful
Repeat this session again if you feel that you need further guidance
prior to the completion of your theory assignments
And if necessary speak to your tutor for some further support