Conference about equality in working life: TOOLS FOR EQUALITY -DUTY OF ACTIVITY AND REPORTING

        organizers: british
        council norway, equality and anti-discrimination ombud,
        the norwegian center against racism
         
         

12.00 Tapas lunch will be served.
12.10 Welcome and introduction:

Brief introductions by British
Council
Norway and the Norwegian Center against Racism. British Council about
what they do and why, The Norwegian Center against Racism about what
they recommend and why.

 
12.25-

13.10

 
Key note by Fiona
Bartels-Ellis, Head of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Division,
British
Council UK
: Responding to the diversity of the UK
– issues and approaches
 
13.10-

13.25

 
Experiences with the
duty of activity and reporting on gender equality: A task worth doing,

or mere bureaucracy? By Claus Jervell, senior adviser, LDO –
Equality
and Anti-discrimination Ombud.

13.25-

13.40

Ethnic monitoring
– possibilities and limitations in a Norwegian context.

By Kristian Rose Tronstad, researcher, Fafo – Institute
for Labour and Social Research. 
13.45-

15-30

Panel debate about the Duties on
Reporting and Activity
:

Short introductions by Hege
Herø (senior advisor YS), Gry Myklebust, (Chief Adviser, employment
policy HSH ), Kristian Rose Tronstad (researcher FAFO), Claus Jervell
(Senior Advisor LDO); Tove Selnes (HR department Opera Software ASA);
Ghazanfar Iqba (Head of Section,
Oslo Tram LTD); Siri Tobiassen (Administrative
manager Organization staff, Norwegian Broadcasting Services). Fiona
Bartell-Ellis, British Council UK.

 
 
Followed by debate.

Moderator:
Nazneen Khan-Østrem

Conference language is English.

REGISTRATION: [email protected] 
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday
April 09
th
12.00 PM