Equality and Human Rights Commission

If your employer is making a decision, or taking action following a decision, about:

• improving your skills, or
• promoting or transferring you to another job or role in your organisation, 
• equality law applies to what they are doing.

Equality law applies:

• whatever the size of the organisation
• whatever sector you work in
• whether your employer has one worker or ten or hundreds or thousands
• whether or not your employer uses any formal processes or forms to help them make decisions
• whether any training you get is carried out by your employer or by someone else.

Pages in this section include:

Core guidance: Career development - training promotion and transfer

Situations where equality law is different

Training and development opportunities

Promotion or transfer opportunities

If you are a disabled person

How your employer can use voluntary positive action to train, promote or deliver a wider range of people

This guide also contains the following sections, which are similar in each guide in the series, and contain information you are likely to need to understand what we tell you about training, development, promotion and transfer:

Information about when you are responsible for what other people do, such as your workers

Information about making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers for disabled people who work for you or apply for a job with you

Advice on what to do if someone says they’ve been discriminated against

A Glossary containing a list of words to help you understand this guidance

Information on where to find more advice and support