Equality & diversity
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My Month: Trevor Phillips - what is appropriate
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/08/2008;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Most EOR readers will have seen the response from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EOR 178) to the questions we posed about the potential conflict of interest between Trevor Phillips' role as chair of the EHRC and the equality and diversity consultancy company he has established, Equate.
My Month: Mayor's mixed messages
Date:
01/08/2008;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The launch of Diversity Works for London's "Gold Standard Diversity Tool" (which we will be writing up in the September EOR).
Strategy to promote diversity in the civil service
Date:
01/08/2008;
In preparation for a single equality duty – to be introduced by the forthcoming Equality Bill – the Government has launched a new strategy to promote equality and diversity across all strands of discrimination within its workforce.
National equality taskforce launched
Date:
01/08/2008;
The Government has launched an expert equality taskforce to examine the root causes of inequality.
Government aims for more diversity in public bodies
Date:
01/08/2008;
The Government is seeking to increase the number of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people being appointed to public bodies.
Trevor Phillips: what is appropriate
Date:
08/07/2008;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Most EOR readers will have seen the response from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EOR 178) to the questions we posed about the potential conflict of interest between Trevor Phillips's role as chair of the EHRC and the equality and diversity consultancy company he has established, Equate. Although the EHRC statement answers some questions, there are aspects to it which many will regard as less than satisfactory.
EHRC legal strategy 2008-09
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/07/2008;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The first legal strategy published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission sets out the key legal issues for the Commission in 2008–09. Michael Rubenstein reports.
Quick results needed on diversity to sustain commitment
Sub Topic(s):
diversity,
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/07/2008;
Unless diversity makes a rapid, measurable contribution to achieving an organisation's core strategic objectives, the board is unlikely to give the commitment needed to achieve longer-term diversity goals, finds new research carried out by Dr Gillian Shapiro and Melanie Allison for the Diversity Professionals' Forum.
Equality reps should be union priority
Date:
01/07/2008;
Unions should prioritise the role of equality representatives, who have the potential to promote good practice in the workplace, concludes research from Wales TUC.
Employers benefit from diversity, says TUC/CBI report
Sub Topic(s):
diversity;
Date:
01/07/2008;
Promoting diversity can yield tangible business benefits for employers, says a joint report from the CBI and the TUC.
Government funding to help Fire Service reach diversity targets
Date:
01/07/2008;
The Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) has published a new 10-year national Equality and Diversity Strategy that includes its toughest ever recruitment targets for women and people from ethnic minority communities.
CABs receive £944,000 from EHRC to tackle discrimination
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/06/2008;
Twenty-five citizens advice bureaux (CAB) across the UK have been awarded grants totalling £944,000 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to provide legal advice on discrimination problems and to raise people's awareness of equality and human rights. The funding is from the EHRC's 2008/09 grants programme, worth £10 million (EOR 176).
Equalities business plans
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/06/2008;
Both the EHRC and the Government Equalities Office (GEO) have published their business plans for 2008/09.
PCS puts pressure on EHRC to enforce race equality duty
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/06/2008;
The PCS union is running a campaign to pressurise the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to take enforcement action against government departments and agencies for their non-compliance with the public sector race equality duty.
Short law report - positive action
Sub Topic(s):
diversity and human rights;
Date:
01/06/2008;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has concluded that it is not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights for a list of candidates for election to the position of judge at the Court to be rejected on the sole ground that there is no woman included in the proposed list.
Fire Service needs to boost diversity
Sub Topic(s):
diversity;
Date:
31/05/2008;
The Government is making £3 million available to boost diversity in the Fire and Rescue Service as new figures show that there has been slow progress in raising the proportion of women and ethnic minority employees.
EHRC committed to maintaining action on disability
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/05/2008;
Delivery on disability by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be equal to that of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), asserts Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC commissioner and chair of the EHRC’s disability committee. Although she acknowledged that there are no longer 520 people dedicated to disability issues as at the DRC, she said that disability does hold a unique position within the various equality strands covered by the new commission.
Evidence inconclusive on benefits of equality policies
Sub Topic(s):
diversity;
Date:
01/05/2008;
It is unlikely that the business benefits of equal opportunities policies and practices are large or widespread among the organisations that implement them, concludes a new study from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
EHRC launches its first equality scheme
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/05/2008;
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) first single equality scheme goes beyond the legal requirement to address gender, disability and race, and also covers issues around age, sexual orientation, religion or belief and human rights.
EHRC awards grants worth £10 million
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/05/2008;
In its first grants programme, the EHRC has awarded more than £10 million worth of funding to organisations across England, Scotland and Wales to promote the values of fairness and good relations.
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