As a responsible employer, you are likely to have within your staff handbooks and procedures information on anti-racism within your equality, diversity and inclusion policies, but perhaps not to any great detail. You may perceive your employees as holding the same values and beliefs of fairness and equality that you would expect as reasonable.
But in the interests of avoiding any misunderstanding, The Equality Act of 2010 lists race as one of the nine protected characteristics, and so any race discrimination is illegal.
Earlier this year, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development set out ‘The 6 Cs’ to clarify expectations:
For an employer to be able to stand any chance of defending any discrimination claim, their policies must be up to date and relevant to the organisation, comply with legislation, reviewed and most importantly communicated to staff.
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