The Anti-Discrimination Promise

In 2006, the Trust pioneered the Jersey Anti-Discrimination Promise, a voluntary code of practice, which has been adopted by a number of employers in the Island.

The aim is to raise the profile of discrimination issues in the public consciousness as well as promoting and celebrating the good practices that already exist within many organizations.

This initiative is particularly important in the absence of any anti-discrimination legislation in Jersey.

The Promise is a simple statement of six guiding principles or pledges to which the participating organization promises to commit. The pledges are as follows:

1. To treat everyone with dignity and respect.

2. To ensure recruitment and employment practices contain effective measures to prevent discrimination or harassment on grounds of ethnic origin, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.

3. To draw on the talents, skills and cultural perspectives of a diverse workforce.

4. To create a working environment where people feel valued and respected.

5. To treat customers and employees with respect and not to discriminate against staff or a member of the community on the basis of who they are or where they come from.

6. To invite customers and employees to hold the organization to the above commitments.

Every organization/employer who signs up to the Promise receives a certificate which it can display in the workplace.

Any organizations, including in particular smaller businesses, who need help to develop anti-discrimination policies, may contact the Jersey Advisory and Conciliation Service ("JACS") as part of the initiative. JACS has agreed to assist businesses to draw up their own anti-discrimination guidelines, tackle bullying in the workplace and/or provide strategies for dealing with race-related issues.

The Trust is currently exploring how to take the anti discrimination promise forward in 2010.