French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceThe gender equality and anti-discrimination referent carries out the following tasks:
1° Providing information and carrying out awareness-raising initiatives for officers and volunteer firefighters, as well as monitoring training on compliance with the principle of professional equality between women and men and the promotion of diversity and the fight against discrimination ;
2° Advising staff, volunteer firefighters and departments on general issues relating to discrimination and professional equality, as well as individual situations where staff or volunteer firefighters are victims of discrimination. A report made by a member of staff or a volunteer firefighter who considers himself to be a victim, or by a witness, is collected and processed as part of the system provided for in article L. 135-6 of the General Civil Service Code;
3° Carrying out an inventory of the policies for promoting diversity and professional equality and combating discrimination implemented by the fire and rescue service and, where appropriate, producing recommendations and participating in the development and implementation of an action plan by the territorial authority ;
4° Participation in the preparation of the single social report provided for by the article L. 231-1 of the General Civil Service Code, in particular concerning its data relating to professional equality between women and men, diversity, the fight against discrimination and disability.
