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Defence Act 1990

Terms and conditions of service in the Civil Staff

61: Equal employment opportunities

You could also call this:

"Everyone gets a fair chance at work in the Defence Force"

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You work in the Civil Staff and the Chief of Defence Force makes a plan each year. This plan is to ensure everyone has equal chances at work. The Chief of Defence Force must make sure this plan is followed. The Chief of Defence Force writes a report each year about what the Defence Force did. You can read about the equal employment opportunities plan in this report. It also says how well the Defence Force followed the plan. An equal employment opportunities programme is a plan to find and remove things that cause inequality at work. This plan is to help make sure everyone is treated fairly. It is used for the Civil Staff and is part of the Defence Act.

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Part 5Terms and conditions of service in the Civil Staff

61Equal employment opportunities

  1. The Chief of Defence Force—

  2. shall in each year develop and publish an equal employment opportunities programme for the Civil Staff; and
    1. shall ensure in each year that the equal employment opportunities programme for that year is complied with throughout the Civil Staff.

      1. The Chief of Defence Force shall include in the annual report of the Defence Force—

      2. a summary of the equal employment opportunities programme for the year to which the report relates; and
        1. an account of the extent to which the Defence Force was able to meet, during the year to which the report relates, in respect of the Civil Staff the equal employment opportunities programme for that year.

          1. For the purposes of this section and section 59, an equal employment opportunities programme means a programme that is aimed at the identification and elimination of all aspects of policies, procedures, and other institutional barriers that cause or perpetuate, or tend to cause or perpetuate, inequality in respect to the employment of any persons or group of persons.