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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...

Published 11 Mar 2010 9:32 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Equality, Diversity, equalitybill, religiousdiscrimination, equalityandhumanrightscommission
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 government... Read More...

Published 5 Oct 2009 4:33 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Equality, Diversity, pensions, retirementage, heyday, camapign
Carers and the Equality Bill

At an event last night held by membership forum Employers for Carers to help celebrate the launch of Carers Week. Nearly one in seven UK workers are carers (according to the 2001 census), with official estimates that claim as many as one in three people...

Published 10 Jun 2009 4:49 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Diversity, corporate social responsibility, discrimination, ehrc, equalitybill, carers, governmentequalitiesoffice
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...

Published 18 May 2009 8:38 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Equality, Diversity, pensions, retirement, campaign, age
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...

Published 28 Apr 2009 4:52 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Diversity, equalpayequalitybillglassceilingequalpayreportspayauditscompulsorypayauditsharrietharmancipdhrverabairdmariaeagle
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... Read More.....

Published 27 Apr 2009 7:44 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Recruitment, Equality, Diversity, discrimination, equalitybill, equalrights, positiveaction
Top professions becoming more socially exclusive

If you want to be a lawyer, doctor, accountant or top civil servant then it helps massively if your family is wealthy and you attended public school.Not exactly a revelation, but the social mobility gap is getting worse, according to... Read More...

Published 15 Apr 2009 3:58 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Diversity, career, children, access, professions, socialmobility
Equality | Some light bedtime reading...

The government has published its response to the consultation it held before drafting the Equality Bill. The document can be downloaded here. Be warned - it's a weighty piece of work (more than 200 pages long) but the executive summary is useful....

Published 23 Jul 2008 9:23 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Politics, pay, Equality, Diversity, discrimination, equality bill, tribunals
Better rights for new dads will improve equality

Compare paid paternity leave levels with other countries and you'll find the UK has some of the worst rights for new fathers in Europe. The speech made last week by Nicola Brewer, Equalities and Human Rights Commission chief executive, highlighted...

Published 22 Jul 2008 1:18 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Politics, Human Resources, Equality, Diversity, paternity, ehrc, maternity, parents
Equality | Women, Wimbledon and the Workplace

In the wake of the Single Equality Bill and the completion of another Wimbledon tournament, much of the talk around the water-cooler has involved talk of pay gaps. It was no surprise that the Equal Pay Commission findings revealed huge pay gaps in several...

Published 8 Jul 2008 10:45 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Human Resources, Equality, women, Diversity, equality bill, pay gap
Diversity | Cash not solution to boosting diversity

The fallout from last month's unveiling of the Equality Bill continues apace. The suggestion that employers should, in effect, be paid to hire more women and black and minority ethnic (BME) workers will undoubtedly provoke controversy. As this is...

Published 7 Jul 2008 9:15 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, hr professionals, business, Equality, women, Diversity, equality bill, ethnic minority, Boots, Private Sector
Equality Bill | Measures could open a can of worms

HR legal eagles will need to swap their summer read for some serious Equality Bill swotting, following the raft of controversial new measures announced last week. The purpose of the Bill is to 'strengthen protection, advance equality and de-clutter...

Published 30 Jun 2008 11:13 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Politics, employers, hr, Equality, Diversity, jobs, gender pay gap, legislation, equality bill, ethnic minority, harriet harman, positive discrimination
Police racism | Fifties throwback Sir Ian Blair - management genius

On the day that Harriet Harman released details of the draft Single Equalities Bill things started to get a bit surreal. Suddenly, I found myself standing beside a large blue telephone box, I somehow seemed to be transported back through time. Through...

Published 28 Jun 2008 11:03 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: racism, Diversity, dixon of dock green, george dixon, sir ian blair, racist, met, police, metropolitan police, management
Job interviews | Accent discrimination hits record levels

Brummies beware - a whopping 76% of employers have discriminated against job applicants because of their accents, with candidates from Birmingham the worst hit. A study by law firm and prolific survey producers Peninsula found that 'accent discrimination'...

Published 24 Jun 2008 9:15 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Recruitment, Diversity, interviews, jobs, accent, discrimination
Will US show its true colours?

Barack Obama claiming victory in the race for Democratic presidential nominee in the US, presents the golden opportunity for the world's most powerful nation to finally show the world that it's not a hot-bed of racism and division and that it...

Published 4 Jun 2008 11:11 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: woman, McCain, racism, free, Clinton, women, Obama, Republican, black, Democrat, non-white, Diversity, white, Hillary, Barack, John

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