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Employment Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring in HRLocker

Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring for Northern Ireland in HRLocker

If you would like Diversity and Equality Monitoring enabled for your company please contact HRLocker Support

Under fair employment legislation, registered employers in Northern Ireland have a legal duty to monitor the composition of their workforce and of those applying to fill vacancies. The criteria are based on the size of the workforce. Generally, employers with 11 or more employees are subject to monitoring requirements. 

Registered employers are also required to make an annual monitoring return to the
ECNI.

HRLocker provides Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring. This can be done when hiring applicants in Northern Ireland. When an applicant applies for a job in Northern Ireland, they are sent a Monitoring Form. It is up to the applicants discretion to fill this out. 

HRLocker provides reports to track the information that is provided through these forms.

In HRLocker

To access Diversity and Equality Monitoring in HRLocker an Administrator must be selected to be a Monitoring Officer.

There can only be one Monitoring Officer. An admin can select another admin to be a Monitoring Officer.

If there is only one admin please contact HRLocker support to enable you to the Monitoring Officer.

To enable Diversity Monitoring in an office, an admin can go to Office settings-edit

Tick the box to enable Diversity Monitoring

If using Hire and you would like the Monitoring forms to be imported to the Onboarding office, make sure to enable Diversity Monitoring

 

After Diversity Monitoring is enabled, the Monitoring Officer will be able to see a new tab in the Employees Directory.

  • This information can be filled in manually by the Monitoring Officer.
  • If the applicant filled the Monitoring Form in Hire and was subsequently hired, the information on the form will be shown here.
  • The Monitoring Officer has access to the Diversity reports in the Employees Reports section
              • Applicant Diversity Report

First Name
Last Name
Monitoring Form
Date Sent
Date Received
Community Background
Sex
Job Title
Application Date
Job Status

            • Employee Diversity Report

Employee Name
Work Reference Number
Job Title
SOC Group
Full-time/Part-time
Sex
Community Background
Ethnic Origin
Disability
Disability Type(s)
Promotion
Contracted Hours

  • See here for information regarding Monitoring your workforce and applicants in line with fair employment regulations