Equal Opportunities Monitoring

Equal Opportunities Monitoring

Girlguiding Ulster is committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate against our job applicants or employees and we aim to select the best person for the job.

We monitor the community background and sex of our job applicants and employees in order to demonstrate our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity in employment and to comply with our duties under the Fair Employment & 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 these questions. Your answers will be used by us to prepare and submit a monitoring return to the Equality Commission, but your identity will be kept anonymous. In all other regards your answers will be treated with the strictest confidence. We assure you that your answers will not be used by us to make any decisions affecting you, whether in a recruitment exercise or during the course of any employment with us.

Name *
1. What best describes your gender? *

1. What best describes your gender? Male Female Non-binary Prefer not to say Prefer to self describe Prefer to self describe
2. The disability Discrimination Act 1995 defined disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-today activities.

Having read this definition do you consider yourself as having a disability?

2. The disability Discrimination Act 1995 defined disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-today activities.

Having read this definition do you consider yourself as having a disability? Yes No
Community Background

Regardless of whether they actually practice a religion, most people in Northern Ireland are perceived to be members of either the Protestant or Roman Catholic communities.
3. Please indicate the community to which you belong

3. Please indicate the community to which you belong I am a member of the Protestant community I am a member of the Roman Catholic community I am a member of neither the Protestant nor Roman Catholic Community
Data Protection

Access to this information will be strictly controlled and will not be available to those considering your application for employment. Monitoring will involve the use of statistical summaries of information in which the identities of individuals will not appear. Whilst the organisation will treat the information given in this monitoring form as confidential, applicants are advised that legal processes may require the organisation to disclose the information given on this slip to certain statutory bodies and, in some circumstance, open tribunal.

The information will subsequently be transferred to the monitoring system operated for Girlguiding Ulster by the Monitoring Officer.

NOTE: If you choose to complete this questionnaire you are obliged to do so truthfully. It is an offence under the Fair Employment (NI) Act 1989 to give false information.