Equal Opportunities Employer
SDS Ltd are committed to providing equal opportunities in the employment of its workforce and to avoiding unlawful discrimination in employment and against all other parties that SDS works with on a day-to-day basis.
It is SDS Ltd.’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, colour, religion (including religious dress and grooming), sex or gender, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military or veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, or any other reason prohibited by law under the Equality Act 2010 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This policy is intended to assist us to put this commitment into practice. Compliance with this policy should also ensure that employees do not commit unlawful acts of discrimination.
Striving to ensure that the work environment is free of harassment and bullying and that everyone is treated with dignity and respect is an important aspect of ensuring equal opportunities in employment. We have a separate dignity at work policy, which deals with these issues.
Equal Opportunities in Employment
SDS Ltd will avoid unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment including recruitment, promotion, opportunities for training, pay and benefits, discipline, and selection for redundancy.
Person and job specifications will be limited to those requirements that are necessary for the effective performance of the job. Candidates for employment or promotion will be assessed objectively against the requirements for the job, taking account of any reasonable adjustments that may be required for candidates with a disability. Disability and personal or home commitments will not form the basis of employment decisions except where necessary.
SDS Ltd will consider any possible indirectly discriminatory effect of its standard working practices, including the number of hours to be worked, the times at which these are to be worked and the place at which work is to be done, when considering requests for variations to these standard working practices and will refuse such requests only if we consider we have good reasons, unrelated to any protected characteristic, for doing so. We will comply with our obligations in relation to statutory requests for contract variations. We will also make reasonable adjustments to its standard working practices to overcome barriers caused by disability.
Customers, Suppliers and Other People not Employed by SDS
We will not discriminate unlawfully against customers using or seeking to use goods, facilities or services provided by SDS.
Grievances
If you consider that you may have been unlawfully discriminated against, please send an email to accounts@sdsdrives.com to report this incident.
SDS Ltd will take any complaint seriously and will seek to resolve any grievance that it upholds. You will not be penalised for raising a grievance, even if your grievance is not upheld, unless your complaint is both untrue and made in bad faith.
