Equal Opportunities

Equality is how a company makes sure all employees have equal opportunities and doesn't judge them on how they are different from other employees, diversity is how a company insures they are fair to employees by having a diverse work force, such as having different sexes and races throughout the employee work force.

Age legislation insures eaual opportunity is given to everyone at any age, although this may have an impact on older workers if the company want a younger approch to the objectives, this could also have an effect on younger people, as older workers are more experienced and may be seen to be more appropriate for certain jobs, search as within the management and director roles. an organisation can give younger people more of an opportunity to gain experience within the boardroom roles. the legislation may also have an effect on older people before they are ready on retiring. if a company want to replace an old employee before they are comfortable to retire, then this legislation would give them more of a chance of staying longer before retiring, instead of replacing them with someone younger when the company feel appropriate.