Posted by Yukiko Hosomi
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The world of equality and diversity is changing. Well, it’s always changing! However, we are about to witness the most far reaching change in equality law the UK has seen since the 1970 Equal Pay Act or the 2000 Race Relations (Amendment) Act.
The Equality Act truly is a piece of adventurous legislation designed to bring together all equality focused legislation/public duties and European Directives under one roof. The Equality Act also clarifies and extends a range of public sector duties to cover different equality groups (or as the act now states – protected characteristics) such as marriage & civil partnership and pregnancy & maternity.
If you would like to find out more about the Equality Act and how it affects you, your work or your studies, please visit http://www.ecu.ac.uk or http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/equality-act. The E&D Unit will be organising a series of workshops and lectures on the new Equality Act, please look out for further publicity for dates and times.
Posted by Yukiko Hosomi
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