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Title: Legal opinion: Single Equality Act retains inequalities
Post by: LostInTime on July 04, 2007, 05:53:34 AM
Post by: LostInTime on July 04, 2007, 05:53:34 AM
Personel Today (http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2007/07/03/41368/legal-opinion-single-equality-act-retains-inequalities.html)
Is the Single Equality Act supposed to harmonise everything?
With the exception of discrimination on the grounds of associating with a transsexual person, and some changes to the harassment definition in the 'sex' strand (which were forced on the government by the ruling in R (Equal Opportunities Commission) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry), the government is proposing to retain the anomalies.
Is the Single Equality Act supposed to harmonise everything?
With the exception of discrimination on the grounds of associating with a transsexual person, and some changes to the harassment definition in the 'sex' strand (which were forced on the government by the ruling in R (Equal Opportunities Commission) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry), the government is proposing to retain the anomalies.