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GMB Southern Region Equality Newsletter
18th April 2012
Please take a look at the latest equality newsletter
from GMB Southern Region.
GMB backs Cosmopolitan's call for Equal Pay
16th April 2012
GMB is backing Cosmopolitan's call for Equal Pay.
Follow the link to Cosmopolitan's
call for Equal Pay for more information.
Show Racism The Red Card
View details of the latest DVD's and Educational
Packs available to purchase from Show Racism the Red Card on
ways to combat racism.
GMB Supports Abortion Rights the National Pro-Choice
Campaign
For more information you can visit the Abortion Rights
website.
The Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005
SI 2005 No. 2467
make amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA) and the
Equal Pay Act 1970 (EPA) in order to implement the amended Equal
Treatment Directive. The amendments only apply to employment and
vocational training.
The main changes include:
- a new definition of indirect sex discrimination;
- explicit prohibition of harassment and sexual harassment in the
SDA;
- explicit prohibition of discrimination on the ground of
pregnancy or maternity leave in the SDA;
- a new "reasonableness" element to genuine occupational
qualification exception allowing employers to refuse to offer a
particular job to someone who intends to undergo, is undergoing is
has undergone gender reassignment;
- amendment to the EPA setting out the extent to which it is
discriminatory to pay a woman less than she would otherwise have
been paid due to pregnancy or maternity issue.
Read the regulations in full here.
AGE DISCRIMINATION
The legislation to ban age discrimination in
employment is in force throughout the UK from 1st
October 2006 and 1st December 2006 for pension schemes.
The legislation (which does not affect the age at which people can
claim their state pension) aims to:
- ban age discrimination in terms of recruitment, promotion and
training
- prevent any forced retirements below age 65 - except where
objectively justified
- remove the upper limit for unfair dismissal and redundancy
payments
- ban the victimisation or harassment of employees on the basis
of their age or perceived age.
For further information from the GMB on age discrimination
please go to the GMB Age Discrimination web
pages.