Annual Report 2004.pdf - Equality Authority

Intercultural Workplaces was launchedduring the week. This guidance documentidentifies practical initiatives thatemployers, trade union officials andemployees can take to ensure that fullequality is achieved for all, including inparticular, migrant workers in interculturalworkplaces.Minister Michael McDowell pictured with thepartners in the Anti-Racist Workplace WeekInitiativeAnti-Racist WorkplaceWeek LeafletPromoting Equalityin InterculturalWorkplaces - stepby step guide tosupport organisationsto implement bestpractice and achieveequality in interculturalworkplaces - publishedby Work AgainstRacism partners duringAnti-Racist WorkplaceWeek 2004A booklet for farmers who employ migrantworkers was published, launched anddisseminated by the Irish FarmersAssociation and the Equality Authority.This was entitled “Equality and MigrantWorkers: On the Farm”. The involvementof the Irish Farmers Association waspublicised at the National PloughingChampionships in September 2004.Implementing Equalityfor Older PeopleIn 2002 the Equality Authority published areport on ‘Implementing Equality for OlderPeople’. The National Economic and SocialForum developed an initiative and afurther report to support itsimplementation. During 2004 the EqualityAuthority took further steps to encourageits implementation by developing apartnership with the National Council onAgeing and Older People and the HealthBoard Executive. A ‘Say No to Ageism’Week was organised in October. Thisinvolved a public awareness campaignusing billboards and national and local