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• EHRC outlines new gender pay reporting proposals

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published its proposals for employers reporting gender pay gaps (on the EHRC website). The watchdog has outlined the voluntary measures organisations with more than 250 employees can use to publish information... Posted Jan 19 2010, 03:56 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, equal pay, equality bill, gender pay gap, employers

• Report stage of Equality Bill: 2 December

  The Report Stage of the Equality Bill has been listed for 2 December - see progress of the Equality Bill on the Parliament website. At this stage the Bill is considered as a whole, rather than clause by clause. See also: Next Stage of the Equality Bill... Posted Dec 01 2009, 06:56 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, equality bill

• Had transgender surgery? - then prove it with a photograph

  A Philadelphia transgender woman was asked to provide a surgeon's report and, most shockingly, photographs of her genitals, before being allowed to use the women's toilets, according to the Usefully Employed blog. Read More... Posted Aug 17 2009, 08:49 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equality bill, gender reassignment

• The Equality Bill: simplifying discrimination law?

  By distilling the current discrimination legislation into one Equality Bill, the Government hopes to achieve a clearer legal framework for equality that will be easier to understand and implement. But has it done this? The three-part detailed analysis... Posted Jun 30 2009, 12:25 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, sex discrimination, discrimination, equality bill, disability discrimination, race discrimination, positive action

• Government consults on public sector equality duties

  The Government has issued a consultation on specific duties designed to help public authorities perform the general equality duty set out in the Equality Bill. The consultation can be viewed on the Government Equalities Office website Equality Bill: making... Posted Jun 15 2009, 05:46 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, equality bill

• Equal pay audits: how hard can it be?

  Equal pay audits. How difficult can they be? Well, if you have read the Equalities and Human Rights Commission's guide to the process, you may well come to the conclusion that they are both enormously difficult and exceptionally time consuming. But... Posted Apr 29 2009, 04:13 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, equal opportunities, equal pay, equality bill

• Equality Bill: consultation on multiple discrimination

  The Government has issued a consultation paper, Equality Bill: assessing the impact of a multiple discrimination provision (PDF format, 892K) (on the Government Equalities Office website), on its plans for making provision for multiple discrimination... Posted Apr 29 2009, 02:56 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, age, sex discrimination, religion, equality bill, disability discrimination, sexual orientation, race discrimination, gender reassignment

• Equality Bill laid before Parliament

  The Equality Bill 2009 is expected to be published in full on 27 April 2009, having been laid before Parliament today. House of Commons order of business for 24 April 2009 First reading of Equality Bill in Parliament Read More... Posted Apr 24 2009, 04:23 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, equality bill

• Equal Pay Act 'no longer fit for purpose', says EHRC

  The 1975 Equal Pay Act is "no longer fit for purpose" and requires "radical reform" in order to speed up the closing of the gender pay gap, according to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 01:35 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, equal opportunities, equal pay, equality bill, gender pay gap

• Harman launches new equality panel

  Harriet Harman , Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Equalities, addressed the TUC conference in Brighton this morning, and followed it up with a questions-and-answers session with delegates. Harman was speaking in her role as Minister for... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:55 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, employee rights, tuc, employee relations, industrial relations, equality bill

• Equality Bill - the approach to existing discrimination provisions

  The government's June 2008 document setting out initial information on the forthcoming single Equality Bill (on the Equalities Office website) concentrated on new provisions, including the outlawing of pay secrecy clauses and an extension of positive... Posted Jul 22 2008, 02:22 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: sex discrimination, equal pay, religion, equality bill, disability discrimination, sexual orientation, race discrimination

• Plans to "declutter" and "strengthen" discrimination law

  The Government has begun the countdown to the introduction of its single Equality Bill with the publication of Framework for a fairer future - the Equality Bill (on the Equalities Office website), setting out initial details of the Bill's contents... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:06 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, discrimination, equality bill