Equal Opportunities in Employment

The need to compete in world markets means that businesses must have a flexible, well trained workforce. In most cases the investment in people is the largest commitment that a business makes.

Getting recruitment and selection wrong and restricting opportunities for training and development on the basis of stereotypical assumptions, is costly and a waste of resources.The UK is now a multi-cultural, multi-racial society.

Retaining skilled and experienced staff is more cost effective than recruiting new staff who take time to become fully effective.

Thus there are very strong economic and business reasons for Fair Play's activiites in the South East.

Cost benefit analysis shows that the benefits of equality are:

• the best use of human resources
• a flexible workforce to aid restructuring
• a workforce representative of the local community
• an improved corporate image with potential employees and customers
• attracts ethical investors
• managers integrate equality in corporate objectives
• new business ideas from a diverse workforce

The costs of inequality are:

• Inefficiency in the use of human resources
• inflexible workforce limiting organisational changes
• poor corporate image with respective employees and customers
• management time spent on grievances and tribunal claims