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Equal Treatment
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Diversity in the legal profession - a study of barriers and individual choices
Recent statistics suggest the legal profession is segmented and stratified on gender, race and class lines. To study this further, the Legal Services Board commissioned a qualitative study of female and BME professionals to investigate the reasons for practitioners' career patterns.
Law Firm: Legal Services Board | Published: 13 April 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
Losing the 'Xtra Factor': can age discrimination now be justified on the basis of cost?
The Court of Appeal has handed down its decision in the case of Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust. The court ruled that an NHS Trust's decision to give Mr Woodcock 12 months' notice of dismissal, to avoid him receiving an enhanced pension on redundancy, was not unlawful age discrimination.
Law Firm: Wragge & Co | Published: 30 March 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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How to roll out a global anti-discrimination policy
Employers with multi-jurisdictional operations increasingly seek to implement blanket policies that apply equally to their global workforce. This article discusses various anti-discrimination regimes and practices, with a view to addressing the challenge of implementing a harmonised policy.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 30 March 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
Access to Work - employer and employee co-operation
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee's refusal to co-operate in the process of applying for Access to Work frustrated the employer's attempt to assist the employee with his disability. In this briefing, Wragge & Co's employment team analyse the case in more detail.
Law Firm: Wragge & Co | Published: 21 February 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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Religion or belief discrimination - the scope and limits of employers’ duties
This briefing looks at how recent developments in the area of religion and belief discrimination merit employers' attention; what types of non-religious beliefs are protected? What extent must employers comply with the law when an employee's conduct takes the form of manifestation of belief?
Law Firm: Nabarro | Published: 14 February 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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Discrimination law review - what lies ahead?
This review from Eversheds provides comment and analysis on the recent flurry of activity relating to discrimination law. As well as discussing the key cases surrounding these developments, the review outlines why the issues around diversity will continue to broaden in 2012.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 13 February 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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Equity in the workplace - a global overview
This briefing from Baker & McKenzie contains a collection of articles from 13 jurisdictions which examine various issues regarding equality in the workplace. Taken as a whole, the briefing outline how countries continue to pass new legislation that aims to create an equal environment for all.
Law Firm: Baker & McKenzie | Published: 09 February 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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Employment law update - aggravated damages; equal pay; TUPE service provision changes
Baker & McKenzie's monthly update on UK employment law provides details and comment on new EAT guidance on the award of aggravated damages; discretionary share options fall outside scope of equal pay claims; TUPE service provision changes and the supply of goods exclusion.
Law Firm: Baker & McKenzie | Published: 03 February 2012 | Practice Area: Regulation and Enforcement
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Some are more equal than others: an overview of equal pay
A recent report reveals that the mean average gender pay gap was 21.5 per cent for gross weekly earnings. This briefing from Mills & Reeve's employment team considers the core principles of the equal pay provisions, recent case law, legislative developments and proposals for the future.
Law Firm: Mills & Reeve | Published: 11 January 2012 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
Hong Kong updates Code of Practice on disability discrimination
On 3 June 2011, Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission revised the Code of Practice on Employment under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance. This briefing outlines the Code's purpose, what case illustrations mean for employers and how the Code clarifies certain provisions within the DDO.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 14 December 2011 | Practice Area: Equal Treatment
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