Fair Employment Form

Guidance Notes:
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We aim to provide equality of opportunity to all persons regardless of their religious belief; political opinion; sex; race; age; sexual orientation; or, whether they are married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled; or whether they have undergone, are undergoing or intend to undergo gender reassignment.
We do not discriminate against our job applicants or employees on any of the grounds listed above. We aim to select the best person for the job and all recruitment decisions will be made objectively.
We also monitor the community background and sex of our job applicants and employees in order to comply with our duties under the FairEmployment & Treatment (NI) Order 1998.
 
You are not obliged to answer the questions on this form and you will not suffer any penalty if you choose not to do so.
Nevertheless, we encourage you to answer the questions below. Your identity will be kept anonymous and your answers will be treated with the strictest confidence. We assure you that your answers will not be used by us to make any unlawful decisions affecting you, whether in a recruitment exercise or during the course of any employment with us. To protect your privacy, you should not write your name on this questionnaire. The form will carry a unique identification number and only our Monitoring Officer will be able to match this to your name.
 
Community Background:
Regardless of whether they actually practice a particular religion, most people in Northern Ireland are perceived to be members of either the Protestant or Roman Catholic communities.
Please indicate the community to which you belong by ticking the appropriate box below:

If you do not answer the above question, we are encouraged to use the residuary method of making a determination, which means that we can make a determination as to your community background on the basis of the personal information supplied by you in your application form/personnel file.
 
Sex:
Please indicate your sex by ticking the appropriate box below:

Disability:
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 a person is deemed to be a disabled person if he or she has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-today activities. Please note that it is the effect of the impairment without treatment which determines whether an individual meets this definition.