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Specific duties - public authorities
All public authorities bound by the general duty are also subject to the employment duty, unless specifically exempted (as set out in the Statutory Orders).
The CRE has published its own employment monitoring data for 2006, which you can download here:
All public authorities bound by the employment duty (see Appendix 3 of the Code of Practice and subsequent Orders) must monitor, by racial group, the numbers of:
Where an authority has 150 or more full-time staff, they should also monitor the number of staff from each racial group who:
Authorities are also required to publish the results of this monitoring annually.
The employment duty is not just about collecting numbers and counting staff. Authorities must ensure they are meeting the general duty in exercising its employment functions. Therefore in order to meet the general duty, public authorities should use the above monitoring information to:
Further information about ethnic monitoring can be found here:
Some frequently-asked questions about the employment monitoring duty are outlined below.