Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Aquaris Solutions
At Aquaris Solutions, we take pride in our exceptional team, each member bringing unique backgrounds, personal characteristics, experiences, skills, and motivations. We value the differences each person contributes, recognizing the strength that diversity brings to our organization.
Fostering an Inclusive Culture
Our inclusive culture ensures everyone benefits from a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills, creating a happier and more productive work environment.
Our Diversity & Inclusion Commitment
We are dedicated to:
Promoting a workplace founded on dignity, trust, and respect, free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, or victimization.
Ensuring our recruitment, promotion, and retention processes are fair and unbiased.
Cultivating an Inclusive Culture
Every individual at Aquaris Solutions is responsible for upholding and promoting our diversity and inclusion policy. Our daily interactions shape our culture, making it essential for all of us to create an inclusive environment.
We expect our employees to treat colleagues and third parties with fairness, dignity, trust, and respect, accommodating different views and encouraging diverse contributions. All interactions must be free from discrimination, harassment, victimization, or bullying. Any violation of this policy will result in appropriate action.
Definitions
Discrimination: Our interactions must be free from any form of discrimination based on the following protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010:
Disability
Sex
Gender reassignment
Marital or civil partnership status
Race
Religion or belief
Sexual orientation
Age
Pregnancy or maternity
We understand discrimination can be intentional or unintentional, direct or indirect, and can arise from unconscious biases.
Harassment: Unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic that violates someone's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment.
Sexual Harassment: Conduct of a sexual nature that violates someone's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment, or less favorable treatment based on rejection of or submission to such conduct.
Victimization: Treating someone detrimentally because they have made or supported a complaint of discrimination or harassment.
Bullying: Offensive, intimidating, malicious, or insulting behavior, or abuse or misuse of power that undermines, humiliates, or injures the recipient. Bullying can occur face-to-face, via email, phone calls, online, or on social media.
Recruitment, Advertising, and Selection
Our recruitment process aims to select the most suitable candidate based on relevant experience, abilities, and qualifications. We strive to attract applications from all sections of the community and ensure our advertisements and selection processes are fair and inclusive.
Training and Promotion
We train our line managers to identify and address discriminatory practices and promote equal opportunities within their departments. All employees receive training to understand their rights and responsibilities, contributing to a work environment free from discrimination, bullying, and harassment.
Terms of Employment, Benefits, Facilities, and Services
We regularly review our employment terms, benefits, facilities, and services to ensure they are free from unlawful discrimination.
Equal Pay
We are committed to providing equal pay for like work, work rated as equivalent, or work of equal value, ensuring our pay system is transparent, unbiased, and based on objective criteria.
Reporting Complaints
All allegations of discrimination or harassment will be addressed seriously, confidentially, and promptly. We do not ignore or trivialize grievances or complaints of discrimination or harassment.