Find out how we will protect and promote the mental health and wellbeing of all employees North Lanarkshire Council recognise that mental ill health and stress can be associated with many of the leading causes of disease and disability in our society. Promoting and protecting the mental wellbeing of our…

Disabled Employee Event Monday 4 December 2023 -11:00am – 3:00pm Disabled Employee Event Monday 4 December 2023 -11:00am – 3:00pm Bellshill Cultural Centre To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Employee Equality Forum and Disability Confident Leader working group are hosting an event for disabled employees. Keynote Speakers…

Promoting equality for disabled people The council is one of only two local authorities in Scotland to be a Disability Confident Leader. To support disabled people at work the Council has in place a Reasonable Adjustment Protocol. This provides employees and their managers with a process for agreeing what tailored adjustments…

Find out how to become a Champion and more! About the Diversity Champions Programme The Diversity Champions Training Programme is changing – more information will follow soon. List of current diversity champions Chief Executive’s Office Robert Gibb, Digital Learning Adviser Pauline McCafferty, Learning & Development Manager Andrew McNaughton, Infrastructure Support…

Equality reports and publications can be accessed from the Council website. Council reports can be accessed from MARS, links to recent reports are included below: Equality Strategy 2019-2024 Public Sector Equality Duties & Programme of Work P086 Equalities (1) Review the Council’s Existing Equality Outcomes in Consultation with Communities and…

26 June 2019 Our Chief Executive Des Murray will be joining us as well as a session on Deaf BSL awareness and much more The next meeting is on Wednesday 26 June from 10:30 – 3:30pm in Forgewood Community Centre Dinmont Crescent Motherwell ML1 Des Murray Chief Executive will be…

The EEF are consulted on a number of policy areas relating to employment. Here you will find information and responses.

Meet like minded colleagues Influence decision making that impacts on equality matters in the workplace Raise, learn and discuss matters affecting our working experiences  Highlight areas of inequality Make recommendations that would  improve and promote equality in the workplace

The Employee Equality Forum is about all NLC employees. We live in a world where our communities and workplaces are diverse – different people very often have different needs.  As an employer we sometimes don’t understand those different needs and that is why we need a mechanism to check things out. So, for…

Here you can access information and resources about the Equality Act 2010, the public sector equality duty and the nine protected characteristics of the Act, including age, disability, gender re-assignment and race. What is the Equality Act 2010 The Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. The Equality…