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Equal Opportunities
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Equal Opportunities " It is unlawful to treat anyone, on the grounds of sex, less favourably than another person is or would be treated in the same circumstances." That is the argument put forward by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), perhaps the most significant of European Community interventions in the personnel field, created to ensure effective enforcement of the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) and the Equal Pay Act (EPA), and to promote equal opportunities (Donnellan 1994: 1). We discriminate between people in many aspects of our life and work. The selection process in particular directly discriminates between people in order to offer the reward of a job to one but not the other. Certain forms of discrimination are acceptable, others are not, and there are certain groups in our society that are discriminated against unfavourably due to the prejudices and preconceptions of the people with whom they have to deal...
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