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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
Parliament has acknowledged that it is not representative of society and has admitted for the first time that it needs to change, Harriet Harman has announced. Harman, who is Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, is set to open a debate in the House of Commons on a motion to establish a Speaker's Conference, which will consider and make recommendations on how to improve representation of women, disabled,...
News | 13 Nov 2008
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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
Diversity, don't know the meaning of the word, My Mum always told me it was impolite in polite society to discuss religion, polotics, sex and particularly anyones parentage let alone drawing attention to disability yet these are the very questions that appear on most forms for diversity monitoring. As everyone is different why do they not monitor other commo...
Comment | 5 Dec 2008
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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
Nothing from the feminists? On this occassion they are obviously finding it difficult to defend the indefensible>
Comment | 4 Dec 2008
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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
Nicholas, you must remember that this motion is coming from a labour politician!! they will just change the laws of the land to accommodate their will, and their collegues in europe who are on the same gravy train will just say its an internal matter. As for all women shorlists, do you not remember the 'Blair Babes'? 20odd women elected to government through such lists at the expense of more able and experienced prospect...
Comment | 20 Nov 2008
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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
Surely if the law in the UK is changed to allow all women shortlists this will fall foul of EU sex and gender equality legislation and will therefore be null and void before it gets off the ground. Is this not so?
Comment | 18 Nov 2008
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Harriet Harman to launch parliament diversity debate
More targets, more blather, more smoke and more mirrors. Look what this government has done to education and just wonder what they are up to here; it must and can only be looking for more votes.
Comment | 14 Nov 2008
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...ays ensures that anyone applying for, or performing, a job can expect to be treated the same as their colleagues, regardless of gender, race or disability. "Over the last 40 years we have introduced laws both to create and respond to change in society and to promote civil rights and equality," said Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, in Framework for a Fairer Future The Equality Bill. "From the first Race Relations Acts back in the 1960s to the important steps towards equality for women in the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts in the 1970s, from strengthening rights for disabled p...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Open for Business
...t Capital Law, believes that the Tories may interfere with the Bill a bit more: "I think it will be tinkered with on the basis that it is not a time to be imposing further red tape on businesses. I think if there's a hung parliament it will be quietly forgotten as well. The Equality Bill is kind of Harriet Harman's `baby' and unless she gets back into power to drive it all through, I think parts of it will remain but it will become quite neutered." Europe One area where the three main parties do part ways is on the issue of Europe. The Conservatives have vowed to "restore national control over those ...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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2009: new beginnings
... is currently expected that the new Bill will come into force during 2009. 1. Equality bill The Equality Bill is to be introduced to Parliament with the Queen's Speech in December, but full details about the new Bill were released in June. Speaking to the House of Commons, Minister for Equalities, Harriet Harman, said that although progress has been made since the first discrimination legislation was brought in 40 years ago, inequalities still exist. To counteract these inequalities, Harman said that everybody "must play their part" and that includes employers and managers. The first measure anno...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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Identity charade
... order to comply with the law, and trying to balance this with the needs of your business. It's become something of a box-ticking exercise -- and as BBC Radio DJs discussed in an interview with our HR Consultant, David Woollcott [listen at www.workplacelaw.net/audio/index/audio_ id/15390] following Harriet Harman's Equality Bill announcements, we appear to be moving towards the kind of positive discrimination that is supposedly outlawed in the UK. This issue -- our equality and diversity special -- we consider the likely impact of what the Government is referring to as `positive action' in our featur...
Magazine issue | 3 Sep 2008
