Positive duty guidance materials for organisations
To help organisations and businesses understand their responsibilities to satisfy the positive duty in the Sex Discrimination Act.
Summary
These resources provide guidance on how to comply with the positive duty in the Sex Discrimination Act and include the standards that the Commission expects organisations and businesses to meet.
Guidelines for complying with the positive duty (2023)
The Guidelines are the Commission’s most comprehensive legal resource on the positive duty.
They provide detailed information about:
- what the positive duty is
- who must meet the positive duty
- what it means to take ‘reasonable and proportionate measures’
- how the positive duty will be enforced
- related legal obligations.
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Guidelines for complying with the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (2023)
The Guidelines provide information on and examples of practical actions that organisations and businesses can take to help them satisfy the positive duty.
Information guide on the positive duty (2023)
The Information Guide is a companion to the Guidelines for complying with the positive duty (2023).
The Information Guide gives more information about the unlawful behaviour covered by the positive duty (including workplace sexual harassment, sexist behaviour, sex discrimination and related victimisation).
It includes information on:
- when and where unlawful behaviour may occur
- risks and drivers of it, and
- its impacts on individuals and business.
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Information Guide on the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (2023)
The Information Guide is designed to educate organisations and businesses about the relevant unlawful conduct covered by the positive duty.
Quick guide for complying with the positive duty (2023)
The Quick Guide is a summary of the Guidelines for complying with the positive duty (2023) and the Information Guide (2023), designed to provide information about the positive duty and to help organisations and businesses to satisfy their legal responsibilities.
The Quick Guide explains:
- what the positive duty is and why it is important
- the relevant unlawful conduct to which it applies
- when and where relevant unlawful conduct may occur
- who could experience relevant unlawful conduct
- how organisations and businesses can satisfy their obligations.
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A Quick Guide for complying with the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (2023)
The Quick Guide is a summary of the Guidelines and the Information Guide.
Resource for small business on the positive duty (2023)
This resource is designed to promote understanding in the small business community about the positive duty. This resource includes a brief outline of the positive duty, who it applies to and who it covers. It outlines the steps small businesses can take to satisfy their obligations and provides practical case studies to help small businesses understand the positive duty and take action.
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A resource for small business on the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (2023)
This resource includes a brief outline of the positive duty, who it applies to and who it covers.
Easy read guides (2023)
These guides talk about the positive duty in an easy to read format.
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Guides about the positive duty - easy read (2023)
These easy read guides were made with the Council for Intellectual Disability.