Equality & diversity
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Asian caste discrimination widespread
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/01/2010;
Caste discrimination is widespread in the UK, with more than half of those from traditionally lower-status Asian backgrounds reporting negative treatment, according to a recent report from the Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA).
Migrant care workers vulnerable to abuse
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/01/2010;
The exploitation of migrant care workers is rife due to the lack of an effective employment rights enforcement regime in the sector, according to a report published by Oxfam.
Inequality in higher education
Sub Topic(s):
statistics and reports;
Date:
01/12/2009;
It could take another 33 years for men and women to be equally represented at professor and head of department level within higher education, according to a new report published by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), the higher education equality body.
Encouraging staff disclosure
Sub Topic(s):
statistics and reports;
Date:
01/12/2009;
The Equality Challenge Unit has published a guide to collecting and using staff equality data, to help institutions develop methods of data collection for areas such as sexual orientation and religion and belief.
Recently published
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/12/2009;
The European Agency for Health and Safety at Work has published Workforce diversity and risk assessment: ensuring everyone is covered, which highlights the need to take account of the diversity of the workforce when assessing and managing risks.
Diary: Equality Bill conference and employment law feminisation
Sub Topic(s):
Equality Act;
Date:
01/11/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
I have previously written about the growing numbers of women in the world of discrimination law. This was dramatically reflected at the Butterworths conference on the Equality Bill I chaired and introduced in September.
Diary: Discrimination Law in 2010
Date:
01/11/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The 2010 version of this acclaimed updating conference will be held at the Millennium Knightsbridge Hotel on Friday 29 January. ...(more)
EHRC publishes disability work plan
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/11/2009;
Promoting ways to make workplaces more open and accessible to disabled people, particularly people with mental health conditions and people with autism and other “neuro-diverse” profiles, will be one of the key activities of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Disability Committee in 2009–10.
Wales launches project to boost under-represented groups
Date:
01/11/2009;
Thirty-four participants from under-represented groups in Wales have been given the opportunity to shadow Welsh National Assembly members and local councillors over six months, in a bid to increase their involvement in the democratic process and community activities.
Diary: Caster Semenya, gender identity and the Equality Bill
Date:
01/10/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
As an avid sports fan, I have been enthralled by two stories in recent days: one uplifting, the other dispiriting.
Diary: Fact-checking discrimination law
Date:
01/10/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
I recently returned from the United States, where for 10 days I read the New York Times, the newspaper of my youth. Racy it may not be, but the New York Times draws a sharp distinction between fact and opnion.
Union success for working parents and carers
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/10/2009;
The aspect of equality on which most trade unions report success in negotiations is for deals covering working parents and carers, according to the TUC 2009 Equality Audit.
Government focuses on women and carers
Date:
01/10/2009;
Narrowing the gender pay gap is a key priority in the coming year for the Government Equalities Office (GEO), the policy department responsible for the Government's overall strategy and priorities on equality issues, according to its latest annual report.
One-third of employees report having problems at work
Date:
01/10/2009;
Some 34% of respondents to a new survey from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills say they have had a problem at work. In the past two years these problems mainly involved employment rights (24%), unfair treatment (13%), discrimination (7%) and bullying and harassment (7%).
Diary: Turmoil at the Commission
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/09/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
I had hoped to go for a while without writing about leadership problems at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, but events over the past month make that impossible.
Equality and diversity training - an EOR survey
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/09/2009;
Author:
Sue Johnstone
Most employers responding to our survey provide training on equality and diversity, and the majority make it mandatory for all employees. More than half say that the amount of equality and diversity training will increase in the future. Sue Johnstone examines the findings of the latest EOR survey. …(more)
Delivering equal protection for all
Date:
01/09/2009;
Author:
Mary Stacey
Albie Sachs helped draft South Africa's post-apartheid constitution and has sat in the country's Constitutional Court since 1994. Here, Mary Stacey looks at Sachs' latest autobiographical book to see how he has dealt with the multiple discrimination rights guaranteed under South African law. …(more)
Equality Bill Committee Stage
Sub Topic(s):
Equality Act;
Date:
01/09/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The Committee Stage of the Equality Bill in the House of Commons was completed on 7 July 2009 after 20 sittings. …(more)
Police make slow progress on diversity
Date:
01/09/2009;
Women comprised a quarter (25.1%) of the total number of police officers in March 2009, according to the latest police service figures for England and Wales, while ethnic minorities made up 4.4%. The figures for the previous year were 24.2% and 4.1% respectively.
Equality monitoring tool launched
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/09/2009;
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has developed an Equality Measurement Framework for monitoring progress on social outcomes from an equality and human rights perspective.
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