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Race Relations Act - Amendments for 2003
The Race Relations Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations 2003 have been laid before Parliament. If passed, they are due to come into force on 19 July 2003. The amendments are required under the EC Racial Treatment Directive of July 2000 which required all countries to amend domestic legislation by - guess when - 19 July 2003. The main changes are: -...
News | 19 Jun 2003
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"We don't serve wheelchairs"
...ch tighter. But who knows, in another 30 years' time perhaps society will be gasping at the employment style of the naughties! Existing discrimination legislation n Sex Discrimination Act 1975. n Race Relations Act 1976. n Disability Discrimination Act 1995. n Disability Discrimination Act 2005. n Race Relations Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations 2003. n Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations 2003. n Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003. n Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. n Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005. n Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. S...
Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
... 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 expand the way "positive action can be used so that employers can pick s...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Equality Bill: the details
The Equality Bill, which is planned to take effect from Autumn 2010, will replace the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, much of the Equality Act 2006, the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, and the Equality Act (Sexual Orien...
News | 28 Apr 2009
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Sexual orientation and the workplace
...ch have been in force since 1 December 2003. The Sexual Orientation Regulations prohibit discrimination against employees in the work place on the grounds of their sexual orientation. The Sexual Orientation Regulations follow a similar pattern to the more established Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. The rights under the CPA coupled with the Sexual Orientation Regulations, confirm the government's drive to protect the rights of persons who are lesbian, gay and bisexual, particularly in their role as employees. The CPA is still in its infancy but how effective have the Sexual...
News analysis | 11 Jan 2008
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...ply "religion or belief" and "belief" is now defined as "religious or philosophical belief." In short, the protection covers any form of philosophical belief even if it is atheism. Rastafarianism is unarguably a philosophical belief. Years ago there was some debate about whether Rastafarians were a race, but this was rejected in repeated cases. As such until the 2003 Regulations they had no protection. However, there are in practice no differences between the protection afforded under the Race Relations Act 1976 and that afforded under the Employment Equality (Religion ad Belief) Regulations 2003....
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
