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  1. Gender equality in the workplace

    A generation ago, the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act made great advances towards achieving gender equality in the workplace. However, today the equal treatment of women at work is still a topical subject. Gender equality is still making the headlines, for example in the last couple of months alone there have been proposals by Lord Davies to appoint more women to board level, the launch of two c...

    Briefing | 20 Nov 2007

  2. "We don't serve wheelchairs"

    ...ibunal would have ruled it out." Cornwall County Council found itself in front of the European Court of Justice over the case of `P', a male to female transsexual who had taken time off in 1992 to embark on a "life test", a one-year period during which a patient planning to undergo an operation for gender reassignment lives in the mode of the proposed gender. She had initial surgery in summer 1992 and was given notice of dismissal in September. P claimed discrimination on the grounds of gender -- and the result of the successful proceedings was that transsexuals were legally protected from dismissal...

    Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008

  3. Equality Bill: the details

    ... apply, the Equality Bill will change our equality law by: introducing a new public sector duty to consider reducing socio-economic inequalities; putting a new Equality Duty on public bodies; using public procurement to improve equality;banning age discrimination outside the workplace; introducing gender pay reports; extending the scope to use positive action; strengthening the powers of Employment Tribunals; protecting carers from discrimination; offering new mothers stronger protection when breastfeeding; banning discrimination in private clubs; and strengthening protection from discrimination fo...

    News | 28 Apr 2009

  4. The sex issue

    ... next six months. Workplace Law Magazine readers air their views on the legal issues affecting their businesses. In 1975, groundbreaking legislation was implemented to stop sex discrimination against women in the workplace. Thirty years on Helen Bamborough asks: are we any closer to balancing the gender equation? The law says everyone should be treated equally, whatever their sexual orientation - is your workplace on the right road? Caroline Merz reports. Considering the recent publicity surrounding the Avon and Somerset Police force's recruitment policy, Paul Quain looks into the issue of positi...

    Magazine issue | 1 May 2006

  5. 2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead

    ...inable Buildings is expected to be completed in January 2005. The new code will establish higher standards for energy and water efficiency, as well as waste and use of materials. giving priority to issues of race and religion; promote and enforce the duty on public bodies to promote race, gender and disability equality. It will also assess a public body's performance of these duties; set its own priorities over which equality cases it supports: there will be no statutory criteria; bring certain proceedings in its own name; conduct inquiries into named bodies or sectors; and publish a regul...

    Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004

  6. Survival of the fit note?

    ...urrent UK employment law with a view to encourage a fairer and more flexible approach to work. Among the issues being considered is that of equal pay between men and women in the workplace. Despite the legal framework around equal pay being in force since the mid-1970s, there is still a significant gender pay gap, and continuing evidence of non-compliance with the law. To address this, the Coalition Government is proposing to penalise those employers who fail to comply with equal pay law, by requiring that they carry out a pay audit and publish relevant pay data for public consumption. As things sta...

    Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011

  7. Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?

    ... that whereas previously employers had reached the position that they only had to worry about direct discrimination and making reasonable adjustments, they will have to be much more cautious in future. There are further changes in the Equality Act to disabilityrelated discrimination, victimisation, gender reassignment and public sector duties, and employment lawyers and both employers and employees will be waiting with anticipation to see how the Government's upheaval of employment law will affect these areas in the coming months. Having been in power for only a few months, it seems that employment ...

    Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010

  8. ETs on the rise

    ...eld view is that the Act simply has not achieved what it set out to do. The Act was written into the statutebookon29May1970, but did not come into force until1975,alongwiththeSex DiscriminationAct1975.The rationale behind this time lag www.workplacelaw.net Comment dramatic effect in levelling the gender playing field in that sector than the Act ever has. Forty years later, in 2010, the Equality Act 2010 was intended by the Labour Government to introduce, in due course, provisions relating to the publication by employers of information relating to the pay of employees for the purpose of showing whe...

    Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010

  9. Changes to Workplace Law Magazine

    ...s faced by modern refugees. Our lead story on p.18 explores the background to and implications of the Equality Bill. Its overriding purpose is to bring together an enormous plethora of laws, introduced piecemeal over the past 40 years, covering a range of discrimination relating to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy / maternity, race, religion / belief, sex and sexual orientation. What the proposed Bill will or will not achieve is a matter of much debate, not least from Workplace Law Network members who are horrified that the Bill includes the provision to ...

    Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009

  10. Anti-discrimination laws a ‘friend to good business management’

    ...iece of legislation ­ enabling organisations and individuals to find out quickly about their rights and responsibilities. Nearly 40 years have passed since the Equal Pay Act, the first milestone in antidiscrimination legislation. However inequality and discrimination still persist today: · · The gender pay gap means that a woman's full time pay is, on average, 12.6% less per hour than a man's. Women working part-time are paid around 40% less per hour; The rate of employment of disabled people has risen from 38% ten years ago to 48% today, but if you are disabled you are still two-and-a-half times...

    News analysis | 15 May 2009

  11. Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it

    ...espite those employees not spending all their time on the contract work. www.workplacelaw.net According to Emma Hawksworth, an Employment Lawyer for Russell Jones & Walker, the legal framework in equal pay cases is highly technical and the general feeling is that it is not doing much to reduce the gender pay gap: "Our experience acting for claimants is that women with potential equal pay claims find it difficult to get information about possible comparators and their pay and conditions, not least because of our culture of secrecy about pay and benefits such as bonuses. A legal framework which requi...

    Magazine issue | 5 May 2009

  12. Employment Tribunals: back to the future?

    ...ered to couples planning a wedding; refuse admission to a bar because someone was not gay; refuse a child's admission to a school on the grounds of either their or their parents' sexual orientation; and refuse membership of a sports club to an individual on the grounds of their sexual orientation. Gender Equality Duty The Gender Equality Duty (GED), which came into force on 6 April 2007, places an onus on public authorities to promote sex equality and to end sex discrimination. All public authorities, such as health providers, education, local government and the police have to comply. The Duty also...

    Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2007

  13. Occupational health: an unnecessary expense?

    ...carer is defined as an employee who is, or expects to be, caring for an adult who is married to, or the partner or civil partner of the employee; is a near relative of the employee; or falls into neither category but lives at the same address as the employee. 7929 May 16th-22nd From 6 April, the Gender Equality Duty (GED) will require public authorities to promote gender equality. Instead of depending on individuals to raise complaints about sex discrimination, the duty places legal responsibility on public authorities to demonstrate that they treat men and women fairly. 7953 The Construction (D...

    Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2007

  14. Open for Business

    ... the main features in the Bill." The Tories, however, have objected to certain provisions of the Bill, and it is thought that they may make some amendments, should they come into power. For example, the Conservatives suggest that they won't have a blanket obligation on employers to report on their gender pay gap; rather they would only have to produce the figures if they lost an equal pay claim. Pigott acknowledges this to be "quite a minor detail when you think of all the provisions in the Equality Bill". However, Richard Thomas, an Employment Law Partner at Capital Law, believes that the Tories m...

    Magazine issue | 4 May 2010

  15. Identity charade

    ... and affiliates share their thoughts and opinions ... The Equality Bill ­ chucking all discrimination in the same bag Richard Nicolle, Partner, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP The Equality Bill (the Bill) will bring together 116 existing pieces of legislation dealing with the six strands of discrimination: gender; race; religion; disability; age; and sexual orientation. The Government's intention of harmonising the law and making it easier for people to understand their rights is undoubtedly commendable but are these provisions workable? There seems to be little doubt that the Bill will simplify the law as ...

    Magazine issue | 3 Sep 2008

  16. Employment law is changing - but don't tell anyone how

    ...our and child labour. Disputes arising from the FLSA can be submitted to the US Department of Labor for resolution and an employer can also be sued in court for violating the FLSA. Equal Employment Opportunity Laws (EEO): prohibit discrimination in hiring, wages and termination on the basis of age, gender, religion, national origin, disability, or retaliation for pursuing a claim under the EEO law. Disputes arising under the EEO laws are submitted to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) where the complaints are investigated and referred for hearings by EEOC Commissioners. Decisions ...

    Magazine issue | 13 May 2008

  17. 3 strikes and your fire's not out!

    ...nd directors to operate without an SIA licence or to provide unlicensed operatives. 11050 DECEMBER n Deadline for implementation of regulations amending the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA),which were due to come in to force on 1 October 2007. The Regulations were delayed to implement both the EU Gender Directive and aspects of the EU Equal Treatment Amendment Directive. A High Court judgement has found that the UK's sex discrimination laws do not adequately implement the Equal Treatment Directive and the Government now has to make further amendments to the SDA to address the inadequacies as found...

    Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007

  18. Energy management special issue

    ... bring to employees, employers and society more generally. The TUC has expressed support for the review in the hope that it will stop employers who currently do not grant representatives this time off or who attempt to victimise and harass any employees who volunteer for union work. 8145 · A new Gender Equality Duty. 7953 · The Information and Consultation Directive will be extended. 8187 5th · The Work and Families Bill will take affect. 7773 A consultation over whether the HSE and HSC should merge will end on 5 March 2007. The consultation document sets out the case for merging the Comm...

    Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2007

  19. H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?

    ...plications of recent case law for employers P26 Technical guidance 28 Analysis 34 In-depth legal guidance on: giving employers the Bill for violent crime; difficult personalities: a fair reason for dismissal?; and Housing Grants, Construction Regeneration Act 1996: the implications for FMs Is the gender pay gap actually decreasing? 3 workplacelaw My passion Our passion? To make life easier for Clive By being a member of the Workplace Law Network Clive is part of the fast growing online community for workplace managers in the UK. Why? Because we give you Online advice Support you can trust from...

    Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2006

  20. Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?

    ...rformance. The Equal Opportunities Commission suggests that sexual harassment includes `demeaning comments about a person's appearance; indecent remarks; questions about a person's sex life; sexual demands by a member of the same sex or opposite sex; name-calling with demeaning terminology which is gender-specific; and unwelcome physical contact and other conduct of a sexual nature that creates an intimidating, hostile, or humiliating working environment'. In the past, however, there have been problems in determining exactly what constitutes an act of harassment. For example, in Brumfitt against the...

    Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005

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