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Fair Employment Treatment Order
Under the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (FETO) and the Monitoring Regulations, Ulster University is required to monitor the community background and sex of its workforce and submit an annual monitoring return to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI). Supplying this information on time is a legal obligation and helps to ensure fair employment practices are maintained.
Article 55
Under Article 55 of FETO, Ulster University also has a statutory duty to carry out a review of its employment composition and practices at least once every three years.
The purpose of the review is threefold, to:
- Determine whether members of each community are enjoying, and are likely to continue to enjoy, fair participation in employment,
- Ensure, where this does not appear to be the case, that the University determines affirmative action (if any) that would be reasonable and appropriate,
- Ensure, where affirmative action is determined that, where practicable, goals and timetables are set.
Reporting
The University submits its triannual Article 55 report to the ECNI.
In order to comply with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, we no longer publish our Article 55 Review Reports on our web page.
The Article 55 Review Report is available upon request from the EDI team.
How is the equality monitoring information stored?
Your data is handled with the utmost confidentiality. All the information disclosed by staff is stored on the secure CoreHR system, in line with all Data Protection legislation.
The University takes the security and integrity of all the personal data it holds very seriously. All People and Culture staff are trained in and adhere to all data protection legislation in line with University policy.
Community Background information is only accessed by staff whose duties require them to prepare, or to help EDI to prepare, the University's annual FETO return to the Equality Commission and where they use the data for that limited purpose only.
For even more information about privacy, please see our Applicant & Employee Privacy Notice.
