Positive Action
What is Positive Action?
The Humberside Fire & Rescue Service is an employer committed to achieving a working environment that actively encourages, promotes and values equality and diversity. To support this aim, we welcome applications from all of the community who share our commitment.
Our aim is to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve, and in turn improves the service we deliver to the community.
The Humberside Fire & Rescue Service has a uniformed workforce that is currently under-represented by women and people from Black and minority ethnic groups.
If an organisation can show that within the previous 12 months, persons of a particular sex or racial group were considerably under-represented in the workforce then they are legally permitted to use positive action initiatives. (Sex Discrimination Act 1975 & Race Relations Act 1976).
Positive action initiatives can be in the form of access to training for a particular job or encouragement to apply for a particular job.
Positive action can only be undertaken up to the point where someone makes an application and the opportunity to apply must always be open to all.
All applicants must go through the same recruitment and selection process and must achieve the same level in any tests/assessments. Any offer of employment must be made on merit. It would be positive discrimination and therefore illegal for any selection decisions or offers of employment to be made on the basis of someone's race or gender.