EOC Quiz

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Answer the multiple choice questions about equal opportunities. Look for the correct answers on our website. A SOUVENIR WILL BE GIVEN IF ALL 6 ANSWERS ARE CORRECT.


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1 As an employer, what kind of arrangements could be offered to your employees who have family status?
A. Adopt Consistent Selection Criteria in recruitment, promotion, transfer, training, dismissal or redundancy
B. Do not hold stereotypical assumptions on the suitability of people with or without family status for a particular job; e.g. persons with family status are unsuitable for jobs that involve travel
C. A and B
2 The Equal Opportunities Commission is responsible for handling:
A. maladministation on the part of government departments
B. discrimination under the anti-discrimanation laws
C. labour disputes
3 EOC's "Community Participation Funding Programme on Equal Opportunities" provides funding support to community organisations to carry out inter-district or territory wide activities. The funding programme aims at:
A. encouraging community organisations to carry out projects in promoting understanding of government policies
B. encouraging community organisations to carry out projects in eliminating discrimination on the grounds of sex orientation, religion, race and nationality
C. encouraging community organisations to carry out projects in promoting equal opportunities and eliminating discrimination on the grounds of sex, marital status, pregnancy, family status and disability
4 Apart from offering free talks and producing TV docu-drama series which cover the three anti-discrimination ordinances, what else is/are the EOC's public education and promotion effort(s)?
A. Publishing a wide range of materials such as EOC Newsletter, leaflets under Good Management Practice Series, DDO & I Series, FSDO & I Series, Know Your Rights Series, etc. which are available to the public free of charge.
B. Producing training modules on different subjects (e.g preventing sexual harassment, promoting equal opportunities at workplace, eliminating disability discrimination) to facilitate the work of trainers to promote the concept of equal opportunities
C. A and B
5 Which of the following ordinances can protect your friend if she is dismissed by his/her employer because of her pregnancy?
A. Sex Discrimination Ordinance
B. Disability Discrimination Ordinance
C. There is no law protecting her
6 Which of the following is a wrong notion of equal opportunities?
A. to equate all people and to ignore the fact that every individual is unique
B. to give individuals equal opportunity to go as far as their talents, abilities and determination can take them
C. to ensure equal rights of access to and participation in every aspect of public life. The concept is based on the respect for one another as human beings