Mission Statement

 Beate Kubitz Associates Limited is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for its employees. This means that none of the above will receive less favourable treatment for reasons relating to protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010. These include age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, ethnicity, nationality or national origins, religion or belief, and sexual orientation. 

Beate Kubitz Associates Limited will treat unlawful discrimination, harassment or victimisation by any employee or director as serious misconduct and respond with appropriate disciplinary action. 

Responsibility for implementing this policy will rest with any individual director specifically allocated this, or if no director is responsible, the board of directors. 

Purpose of this policy

The intention of this policy is to guard against opportunities being denied to particular parts of the community as a result of protected characteristics, as defined in the Equality Act 2010 and successor legislation, and ensure that the actions of the company are compliant with applicable legislation.

 

This policy will be drawn to the attention of all employees, directors, candidates for employment of Beate Kubitz Associates Limited, and incorporated into the company’s training and induction procedures.  

The policy will be available on Beate Kubitz Associates Limited’s website. 

Beate Kubitz Associates Limited will take action to ensure that it avoids unlawful discrimination in its recruitment, training, working conditions and employment contracts. 

Where practicable, Beate Kubitz Associates Limited will adapt its processes and resources to ensure people with disabilities are not disadvantaged or excluded by its recruitment procedures or its day-today operations. 

There will be ongoing monitoring of the effectiveness of this policy, and procedures in place for all staff at the company to feed back and review it. 

Implementation

 

Scope

This policy covers direct and indirect discrimination, discrimination by association, discrimination by perception, victimisation and harassment (i.e. conduct which is not necessarily directed at an individual with protected characteristics, but which aims to intimidate, degrade or humiliate). 

This policy is not intended to apply to lawful discrimination, such as positive action taken to include a member of an under-represented group, or decisions taken in relation to an individual’s characteristics which are not protected under the relevant legislation. 

 

Beate Kubitz Associates Limited will ensure that its business remains compliant with the following legislation: 

  • Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974  

  • Human Rights Act 1998  

  • Children Act 1998  

  • Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003  

  • Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003  

  • Gender Recognition Act 2004  

  • Civil Partnership Act 2004  

  • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 

Relevant legislation

 

This policy updated 10 January 2025. Click here to download as a PDF.