This is the full text of the wide ranging Equality Bill as amended in Committee, brought to the commons on 3 December 2009 and printed 9 February 2010. The Bill is intended to provide a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all; to update, simplify and strengthen the previous legislation; and to deliver a simple, modern and accessible framework of discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society. It makes provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others making strategic decisions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the difference in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; and to amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships.
This is the full text of the wide ranging Equality Bill as amended in Committee, brought to the commons on 3 December 2009 and printed 9 February 2010. The Bill is intended to provide a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all; to update, simplify and strengthen the previous legislation; and to deliver a simple, modern and accessible framework of discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society. It makes provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others making strategic decisions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the difference in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; and to amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships.
Subject terms:
institutional discrimination, law, LGBT people, maternity leave, pregnancy, racial discrimination, racial equality, religious discrimination, sex discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, transgender people, wages, age discrimination, disabilities, education law, employment law, equal opportunities;
This is the full text of the wide ranging Equality Bill as amended on report, brought to the commons on 3 December 2009 and printed 2 March 2010. The Bill is intended to provide a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all; to update, simplify and strengthen the previous legislation; and to deliver a simple, modern and accessible framework of discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society. It makes provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others making strategic decisions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the difference in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; and to amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships.
This is the full text of the wide ranging Equality Bill as amended on report, brought to the commons on 3 December 2009 and printed 2 March 2010. The Bill is intended to provide a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all; to update, simplify and strengthen the previous legislation; and to deliver a simple, modern and accessible framework of discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society. It makes provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others making strategic decisions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the difference in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; and to amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships.
Subject terms:
institutional discrimination, law, LGBT people, maternity leave, pregnancy, racial discrimination, racial equality, religious discrimination, sex discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, transgender people, wages, age discrimination, disabilities, education law, employment law, equal opportunities;