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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
A charity is urging more businesses to commit to treating their employees and customers with disfigurements both fairly and equally. The renewed call comes after Marks & Spencer recently become the first retailer to sign up to the Face Equality at Work campaign run by charity Changing Faces. Marks & Spencer joins Shell, the Olympic ...
News | 18 Aug 2009
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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
For a long time M & S has been at the forefront of anti-discriminatory practice with regard to disability. I compiled an access guide to an area in 1996 and they were the only store that actually met the legal minimum standards of the day and they also had a regional access officer checking out accessibility of their stores - unheard of then, and rare now. Their rec...
Comment | 28 Aug 2009
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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
Fair point Elaine. I will wait and see just how much a difference it makes to their overall recruitment policies and practice.
Comment | 27 Aug 2009
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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
I worked for Barclays when we signed the Changing Faces initiative - James Partridge (CEO of Changing Faces) gave an amazing speech, and I met Henrietta as well. These people are doing a great job to trying to encourage everyone to pay more attention to the person behind the face - and should be supported. Take off your cynical hat, and congratulate these large corporatations for trying to make a difference - don't bash them around without knowing anything about their motives. Large compani...
Comment | 25 Aug 2009
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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
...£350m and walked away from the company with payments that of more than £1.6m in 2007; M&S - proposed to transfer all of their existing loyalty card/charge card holders balances into credit card balances in 2004, thus placing customers in debt. Barclays - nuff said! If it encourages other businesses to follow suit, all welll and good. But I do think we need to be wary of the motives behind such moves.
Comment | 24 Aug 2009
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Businesses urged to end disfigurement discrimination
We at Disability Arts Empowerment CIC in the North East hope so too. We deliver training to employers to 'Stamp out Stigma' and help them to understand exactly what the effect of negative reactions are on the individual and how to embrace differences. Good for M&S.
Comment | 21 Aug 2009
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...teps to get to grips with the legal year ahead Dec 2004 / Jan 2005 Noise at work New duties to protect employees' hearing `Fat' discrimination Could overweight employees be considered disabled under DDA? Private life Do employees have a duty to behave outside of work? Corporate killing Will businesses be held responsible for workplace fatalities? In every issue: employment law, health & safety, premises management Contents 06 News The latest legal developments affecting the workplace and those to look out for in the upcoming months Looking ahead to the New Year 09 Letters New! Workplace Law...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
