Policy
Anderson Quigley believes that there should be no discrimination because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation. Anderson Quigley operates an equal opportunity policy and commits to following all obligations under the Equality Act and the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998. Anderson Quigley will take appropriate steps to ensure that all applicants are reviewed on the basis of ability and the requirements of the promoted role.
Monitoring
To ensure that the equal opportunities policy is effective, monitoring of applications will be carried out. This necessitates the collection of information regarding the applicant’s ethnic origin, sex, gender identity, marital status, disability, religion, belief, community background and sexual orientation. This monitoring form may also be shared with the Queen's University Belfast for their own equality monitoring purposes.
Further information from Queen's University Belfast
This form is not used as part of the selection process and the recruitment panel will not have access to the monitoring information.
To fulfil its legal obligations under the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998, the University is required to monitor the community background and gender of its employees and applicants. Also under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 the University is required in carrying out all its functions to have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity and to have regard to the desirability of promoting good relations.
You are not obliged to answer the questions on this form and you will not suffer any penalty if you choose not to do so. Nevertheless, we encourage you to answer all questions as the University considers that monitoring is the essential first step in the effective implementation of its equal opportunities policy and its equality scheme. The University would appreciate your cooperation in completing this monitoring form in order that it may effectively monitor, evaluate and review its policies and procedures and develop affirmative or positive action policies (if required). Your answers will be used by us to prepare and submit statutory returns to the Equality Commission and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and to provide anonymised data for Institutional reports such as Equal Pay Audits as well as Equality Screening of policies, Workforce Profile Dashboards and Freedom of Information requests. Your identity will always be kept anonymous. Your monitoring data will be strictly controlled and managed by the Diversity and Inclusion Unit in a manner compliant with General Data Protection Regulations.