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Religious discrimination | Vegans win Equality Bill protection
The government’s attempts to outlaw religious discrimination in the workplace turned into farce last week when a draft code of practice was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The code aims to help employers interpret the Equality Bill, but… continue
Retirement age on its last legs
Despite the recent High Court decision in the Heyday challenge to the default retirement age, which ruled that it is legal for employers to force workers to retire at 65, its days are surely numbered.
Pressure is growing on the… continue
Keeping older people in work can save brain cells
Research conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London and reported in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry suggests that a good way of cutting the number of people suffering from age related dementia is to keep your brain active,… continue
Firms won’t publish pay gaps voluntarily, despite Equality Bill
As expected the Equality Bill contained a few surprises. I realise that’s an oxymoron, but the government always likes to think its new draft legislation contains a few ‘shock factors’, despite the fact that most of the press including Personnel… continue
Positive action could lead to claims of discrimination
The one provision of the Equality Bill which I find troubling is the idea that employers will be able to recruit people from an under-represented group when there are candidates of equal merit. One problem with this is that in the real… continue
ECJ Heyday decision sparks outrage
Personnel Today’s drive to force the government to commit to scrapping the default retirement age (DRA) has stepped up a gear yet again, with outraged reaction from all angles to the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) decision last week to refer the… continue
CIPD BNP debate rumbles on
My story about the CIPD member named as a BNP activist on a leaked membership list, which featured on the front page of Personnel Today this week, has got the forums and message boards buzzing.
The debate over whether the… continue
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