- Work environment, equality, and safety issues
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At MDT, we have a zero tolerance for victimization, discrimination and harassment. MDT is committed to working actively, both long-term and short-term, to ensure that our workplace is equal regardless of identity, background and lived experience. MDT works actively to be a safe and equal workplace free from violations, abuse, threats and violence for everyone who operates in MDT’s premises. This applies to the board, employees and hired staff at MDT, those who work in MDT’s premises and the audience that visits MDT. We believe that this creates a stronger and more creative environment for both visitors and those who work here. Our policy aims to clarify MDT’s values and should permeate the whole organisation. The different paragraphs of this policy document should work together.
1. Development and continued equality work. Equality is an unfinished process and a daily matter. MDT strives to develop the skills of its staff to meet a changing art field and world through providing access to training and other resources.
2. Working environment. MDT strives for a good work environment, both physically and psycho socially. As an employer, MDT is responsible for preventing, and following up on, ill health and deficiencies in the work environment. The employer should collaborate with its staff in a good working environment.
3. Safe environment. MDT strives to create a safe environment – for employees, for artists who work with us and for the audience that visits us. We believe that safer spaces create good conditions for high quality work and a place where both practitioners and visitors want to return.
4. Equal terms. At MDT, everyone should have equal opportunities, rights and obligations regardless of identity or background. We strive for an active and intersectional perspective concerning norms about race, culture, cultural background, language, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, family, body, disability and ability variation, religion or other belief, age, class, and class background. Note: In terms of discrimination cases we consider the law’s protected grounds for discrimination (sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age).
5. Representation. MDT is concerned that the workforce – both in the workplace and in our program – has a broad representation regarding identity and background. We believe that this is both a quality issue and a justice issue.
6. Investigative measures. MDT takes responsibility by investigating what has happened if a person feels violated at MDT, and addressing and remedying the situation (see reaction plan).
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