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29. Equality Policy
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15.29 Equality Policy:
1. This Equality Policy may also be known as the Equality and Diversity Policy.
2. The business has a duty of care to show due regard to the need:
  (1) To eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act:2010.
  (2) To advance equality of opportunity between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
  (3) To foster good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
  (4) To minimise personal embarrassment by people who may have a disability - to treat people with dignity and respect.
3. The business has a legal obligation never to discriminated based on the following characteristics as:
  (1) Age.
  (2) Disability.
  (3) Sex (gender).
  (4) Sexual Orientation.
  (5) Race (ethnicity or culture).
  (6) Religion or Belief.
  (7) Gender Reassignment.
  (8) Marriage or civil partnership.
  (9) Pregnancy and maternity.
4. To discipline any person who discriminates against a person based on any of the above characteristics.
5. To apply this equality policy to all people as employees, contractors, temps, trainers, customers, suppliers and all manor of business associates.
6. To accept that a whole extra set of characteristics apply to people below the age of eighteen years where parental consent may be mandated.
7. To understand that equality does not extend to income or benefits or creativity or skill or experience or qualifications or effort or knowledge or wealth - every person is unique.

2. Disability:
1. To acknowledge that the Disability Discrimination Act:1995 was replaced by the Equality Act:2010. To note the Equality Act is not known as the Equality and Diversity Act.
2. The business is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of equality and diversity where all people are treated equitably regardless of any disability as defined by the Equality Act:2010.
3. Disability: The Act section 6 states that a person has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment and the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the persons ability to carry our normal day-to-day activities.
4. Every company has a duty to make reasonable adjustments to the building to accommodate disabled people where any arrangements of physical features of the building cause a substantial disadvantage as:
  (1) To provide or arrange training.
  (2) To provide flexible working hours or arrangements.
  (3) To assign a person to an alternative work place.
  (4) To acquire or modify equipment as needed.
  (5) To make physical adjustments to the building.
  (6) To make reasonable adjustments to working practices.
  (7) To keep the building within a reasonable temperature range.
  (8) To keep the air in the building clean and free from pollutants such as pollen.

3. Aims:
1. To recruit and retain people with the talent, skills and experience and to ensure people with disabilities can fulfil their full potential.
2. To provide equity in access to the full range of career opportunities for all people regardless of any disabilities.
3. To ensure that there is not unfair discrimination on the grounds of disability and that access to business opportunities is based on merit.

4. Opinion:
1. To accept that all people have a disability of some kind and that all people shall be treated equally with due regard to all disabilities.
2. To accept some disabilities may not be shown where a person has a cancer, HIV or MS.
3. To accept disabilities include people who are blind, sight impaired or partially sighted.
4. To accept some mental health disabilities vary from time-to-time such as depression, personality disorders and learning disabilities.
5. To understand that some disabilities like dementia, muscular dystrophy and motor neuron disease may be progressive over time.
6. To accept disabilities include people with phobias, autism, schizophrenia, dyslexica, diabetes and hearing disorders.
7. To accept disabilities include people with high blood pressure, heart conditions, respiratory diseases, asthma and hay fever (caused by pollen).
8. To accept some mental health disabilities may be triggered by lone working for an extended period or by working an irregular shift pattern that upsets the bodies internal clock.
9. To accept that some kinds of alcoholism and drug abuse is a mental disability that may be treated.
10. To understand that too much standing, too much sitting and too much walking can create a disability in the work place.
11. To accept disabilities include people with mood swings and emotional outbursts that can be managed with care.
12. To understand that pregnancy is not a disease, but consideration must be granted to people with are pregnant with regard to physical work and streeful conditions.

5. Office Environment:
1. To accept that global warming will change the atmosphere in ways that will become a significant health and safety hazard.
2. To understand that a critical factor of global warming is air pollution and that the air inside buildings must be managed to prevent pulmonology diseases.
3. To ensure that people do not open windows to let in polluted air and do not have a barbecue in the outside polluted atmosphere.
4. To embrace the problem of air pollution will not be resolved in the next century and so every control measure to mitigate the effect of air pollution must be taken.
5. To understand that air conditioning becomes mandated as a result of global warming where extreme weather events will create very hot and very cold conditions that demand extreme levels of insulation.
6. To embrace air pumps to use geo-thermal exchanges to heat buildings in the winter and to keep the building cool in the summer - it is a business requirement.
7. To accept that global warming is the single most important issue that shall ever impact on the business and that life and death hazards are a consequence to be mitigated with all kinds of control measures.   Equality and diversity may be tested with extreme weather events that render parts of the world to become uninhabitable, that create clean water disputes, that create clean air conflicts with wild fires and floods.   Equality and diversity will be associated with rich people having air conditioning to keep cool and adequate heating to keep walm while poor people suffer very hot days and very cold nights - three times more poor people die of weather related problems than rich people.
8. Steps and Stairs: To recognise that the population is getting older and as people get older they are more likely to have mobility issues - a growing proportion of business associates will be disabled in some way.   Action is needed to reduce the need for steps and stairs and that will mean lifts and ramps that can be used by wheeled apparatus.   Robotic equipment on wheels is far cheaper than equipment on legs that can handle stairs - offices may be defined by the robots available to help people and make people more productive and effective.

6. Associated:
1. To operate the company with an Alcohol and Drugs Policy.
2. To operate the company with a No Smoking (or vaping) Policy.
3. To operate the company with an Environmental Health and Safety Policy.
4. To operate the company with a Dress Code Policy.

7. Privacy:
1. To operate the business where permitted by law, to never record a persons:   gender, orientation, religion, marital status, race, culture, ethnicity, date of birth, country of birth, hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, height, weight, health, convictions and disabilities   that could be used to discriminate against the person.
2. To understand that while a persons stolen password can be reset, a persons stolen biological characteristics cannot be reset.
3. To accept that equality begins by treating all people the same and eliminating those things that can be used to discriminate.
4. To complete surveys that ask discriminatory questions such as gender as "other" so the survey results cannot be used to discriminate against people.

8. Dress Code:
1. To operate the with a dress code policy that is based on equality where each person has the right to wear whatever they choose so long as it does not harm others and conforms with Health and Safety Regulations.
2. To understand that Health and Safety regulations mandate that a person wears safety boots, safety helmet and hi visibility vest when in certain work places.
3. To accept that people have the right to wear gender specific clothing when they choose and when it is applicable in a business context.

9. Terminology:
1. To accept that people can be referenced as people without stating their gender as he or she and man or woman - many more genders may exist but all are people.
2. To accept that marital status as Miss or Mrs is no longer relevant and can only be used to discriminate.
3. To replace the term Chairman with Chair Person, the term Workman with Work Person and the term Policeman with Police Person - to imply gender is discriminatory and may be wrong.

Document Control:
1. Document Title: Equality Policy.
2. Reference: 161529.
3. Keywords: ITIL, Equality Policy.
4. Description: Equality Policy.
5. Privacy: Public education service as a benefit to humanity.
6. Issued: 11 Dec 2018.
7. Edition: 1.2.
8. Revision: This document is reviewed and revised annually and as needed.

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1. Investment Policy:
1. To accept that people who choose to become financially free are sales people while those that choose the life of a slave will work for rich people to make rich people richer.
2. To identify that the sales person always works for themselves even when working for a company with a brand - the only brand being promoted by a sales person is themselves.
3. To understand that sales people come in all shapes and sizes where the most unlikely sales person may become the most successful - good sales people fail more times than poor sales people.
4. To accept that sales people are educators - they educate prospects with a set of cost benefit evaluations that may contain a bias towards what they choose to sell.
5. To guess that only sales people become financially free - eventually.
6. Lawyers are sales people who sell justice to the rich and restrict justice to the poor - lawyers can only get rich by selling to the rich.
7. Politicians are sales people who sell an aspirational fake story to buy votes from those who aspire to the fake dream - the better the fake dream the more votes they will win.   Politicians are in a competition where the one to win is the one to sell the best fake story.   The poor politician will tell you exactly what the competition will do because they have little idea what they will do.   The good politician will sell you an aspirational story that many people would aspire to reach - utopia that is too good to be true.
8. Bankers are sales people who gamble with other peoples assets in the hope of winning a small percentage each day.   To gamble with 20 million on a currency fluctuation of 5% will earn one million pounds for that simple transaction.   The banker earns one million while the 5% devaluation will be paid for by a very large number of poor people who pay 5% more for their daily food and goods.
9. Retailers are sales people who employ a vast army of slaves on minimum wage to make the retailer rich.   No shop keeper ever became financially free, only sales people who can deploy an army of slaves working as shop assistants can become financially free.
10. Business people are sales people who sell a dream to a vast army of slaves on minimum wage to carry out fixed documented procedures.   Business people become richer as they sell to more people to work for them - a few slaves are paid more than others to perpetuate the dream that makes the rich person richer.
11. To estimate that at least 90% of the population are slaves and less than 10% are sales people who will become financially free.   It is certain that the sales people could never become financially free without the active support and cooperation of the slaves who are happy or content doing a days work to make rich people richer.
12. A poor sales person is on their own doing things wrong as stepping stones to accidentally stumbling upon something that makes them rich - success can take a long time.   A good sales person is surrounded by an army of slaves who do many things wrong in the race to discover the one thing that makes them financially independent - many slaves make success happen faster.
13. A theory should be invented that each person has one and only one good idea in their lives - some people have put themselves in a position to exploit that idea, but most see it fade away.   Rich people can frequently be associated with one and only one good idea that made them rich - once rich they employ slaves to come up with other clever ideas.   Slaves have an employment contract that states that everything they invent or discover is owned by their rich master.