The New
Equality Bill was published on 27 April 2009 and is being
used to strengthen protection, advance equality and simplify the
law. The Equality Bill places a new duty on public bodies.
It will bring together existing duties and
extend to them to gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation and
religion or belief.
Reference to "Religious and Belief or lack of
religious belief" is a broad one. It includes Baha'ism, Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism,
Rastafarian and Zoroastrianism.
Faith Training For Your
Organisation
* Does your organisation deliver services to people of different
faiths?
* Do you work in partnership with religious organisations?
* Are you an employer of a religiously diverse workforce?
* Hatred against persons on religious grounds?
* Do you want to start an inter-faith project and want some
guidance?
* Are there religious tensions in your area of work which you want
to reduce?
Knowledge about Local Community is an essential.
To understand their history, literature, and art, and can be
helpful in broadening one’s cultural horizons and in deepening
one’s insight into the complexities of past and
present.
Knowledge about religions and
beliefs can reinforce appreciation of the importance of
respect for everyone’s right to freedom of religion or belief,
foster democratic citizenship, promote understanding of societal
diversity and, at the same time, enhance social cohesion.
Our eBooks are
referenced by, financial institutions, logistics
companies, government agencies, NGOs and in the education
sector.
Awareness of world
religions including their cultural, history, philosophy
and political context. Flip through the pages with the click of a
mouse and interact, Zoom-in on articles for more detail or view in
text-mode.
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through the entire edition of 70 pages in A3 Size. View the eBook
in the office, meetings or at home. For all major Faiths
Information in one ebook.
Multi-faith event
calendar - It should be remembered that many religious
festivals are based on the lunar and / or solar calendars, or are
on fixed dates which change with the common calendar
year.
It is good practice for
any organisations to have, or arrange access to, an up-to-date
multi-faith event calendar available for planning purposes. Faiths
will always be a work in progress, intended to be continually
stretched upon with new and updated material.
NHS Missed Appointments.
When the outpatients department of an NHS trust examined missed
appointments, it found that patients from ethnic minorities were
more likely to miss their appointments on certain
dates.
A closer look at the
information showed that many of these missed appointments were on
holy days or festivals (for example during Eid, Greek Easter,
Diwali, or on St Patrick’s Day). To make sure that staff
responsible for making appointments knew when those days fell, the
outpatients department used a multi-faith and multi-ethnic calendar
on its computer system.
Religious
Festivals and Leave - Show sensitivity to faith
communities’ needs during festivals. If you employ a large number
of people from a particular faith community you will need to plan
ahead (e.g. arranging for cover, setting up a rota system for
allocating leave etc.) as many people from that faith community
will ask for leave at the same time.