Sentences with phrase «equalities act which»

The government inherited Labour's 2010 Equalities Act which during his premiership has led to high - profile cases which are widely seen as undermining faith.

Not exact matches

It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.

18, 20); and paradoxically the act of naming by which he claims authority over his wife is also a recognition of her essential equality with him.

Then you have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which lead the Republicans into dominating the south after the Jim Crow Democrats were unable to block Republican efforts to bring equality to blacks in the south.

The Equality Act, which brought together nine separate pieces of equality legislation together, came into force last week.

A Cuomo aide hit back, listing accomplishments over his seven years in office, including paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage, marriage equality, raising the age of criminal responsibility — and the SAFE Act, which requires universal background checks to buy a gun.

Officials were already pitching the plan as a continuation of Cuomo's «progressive» agenda for New York, which the governor counts as including a sharp rise in the minimum wage, the marriage equality law and stronger gun control provisions known as the SAFE Act.

«The Government is right to challenge employers and institutions to address these disparities, but it must also take responsibility for having created a system which has failed to ensure that employers act responsibly and lawfully in tackling discrimination and advancing equality for all groups.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and minister for women and equality, intervened as the archbishop of Wales complained that the government had put his church in an «enormously difficult position», which threatened to «severely curtail» its freedom to act according to its conscience.

Catholic Care tried to have itself exempted from the provisions of the Equalities Act, which outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods and services.

In November 2016, the City Council Women's Caucus rolled out its first - ever «legislative equality package,» which included bills calling for a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices; sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers; support for a state bill that prohibits employers from asking potential applicants for their salary history; and another state bill that gives domestic violence survivors access to breaking leases.

Funke contends that one part of the equality act would actually expand late - term abortions, and he says he could support other parts of the legislation, which would give a boost to laws against sexual harassment, domestic violence and salary discrimination.

The New York State Catholic Conference, which opposes the abortion rights provision, responded to the relaunched women's equality act coalition.

An amendment which would protect the belief that marriage is between «a man and a woman» in the Equalities Act was defeated by 148 to 339.

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, began work towards repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement, under which heirs to the throne must renounce their claim on marrying a Roman Catholic, in order to introduce full equality between the faiths.

The governor rehashed his first - term accomplishments and promised to push for a women's equality agenda (complete with abortion law changes), public campaign finance and the Dream Act, which extends tuition assistance ot undocumented immigrants.

Lancman, a lawyer who served Assembly District 25 for six years, has also passed a significant volume of legislation, including theLibel Terrorism Protection Act, which aims to protect journalists writing about terrorism abroad from being hit with defamation lawsuits, and a host of bills related to equality andsafety in the workplace.

Hochul championed Roe v. Wade, women's equality, and the New York Dream Act, which if passed this year would have provided college financial aid for the children of undocumented immigrants.

They are also fully capable of acting as idiotic as the men, which represents a kind of equality.

One national initiative was Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, enacted in 1965, which funnels money and resources to low - achieving schools in an effort to produce greater equality across districts and to supplement educational offerings for disadvantaged children.

Although dress codes of this kind are already illegal, the reality is that the lack of clarity and any threat of punishment leave many companies feeling free to circumvent the rules, something which the Government, following a recent Petitions Committee and Women and Equalities Committee report, has pledged to act upon.

Adopting this approach, the Supreme Court held that the exclusion in the Equality Act breached the general principle of equality to which Directive 2000/78 gives effect, and so disapplied it insofar as it permitted a restriction on the payment of benefits based on periods of employment pre-5 December 2005.

The activities typically undertaken during the day will often tell a lot about the claimant's overall ability, which is the thinking behind the Equalities Act when it looks at activities out of work to assess work requirements.

I argued that the Equalities Review — the overhaul of the UK's equality framework which culminated in the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010)-- provided an ideal opportunity to bring caste within the ambit of discrimination law (see «Caste: invisible discrimination?»

The equality rights branch of the program should focus on challenges brought under sections 15 and 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which sets out equality rights) and under section 35 (4) of the Constitution Act, 1982 (which recognizes Indigenous rights).

Dr. Gehl sought declarations from the Court, among others, that she was entitled to Indian Status under s. 6 (1)(a) of the Indian Act and that section 6 of the Indian Act, the Indian Registrar's Proof of Paternity Policy («the Policy»), which requires certain kinds of proof of a person's ancestry in an application for Indian registration, and the Registrar's decision in her case, were contrary to the guarantee of equality in s. 15 (1) of the Charter because they discriminate against descendants of illegitimate children of Indian women on the basis of sex.

The Indian Act provision, which imposed slightly heavier penalties than comparable territorial law, was struck down since it denied the accused equality before the law.

Even if this does not happen, it is to be hoped that a single equality Act, which is likely to be one of the options canvassed in the green paper, will be able to iron out the anomalies that have already arisen between the treatment of the three older discrimination strands in this context.

In the spirit of fairness and equality for all, Kleros, which acts as a decentralized third party to arbitrate disputes in every kind of contract, announced on Tuesday that its upcoming crowdsale will use an interactive initial coin offering (IIOC) sale mechanism.

Womens Equality Day, the 19th Amendment (which guaranteed a womans right to vote), and the Equal Pay Act are all early steps that have led to shaping gender equality in todays work force.

Indeed, one study looking at pornography in the US, Norway, and Japan found that Norway, which has the highest level of gender equality, had more images of equality in its pornography, in other words, women having just as much agency and pleasure in the sexual acts.6 Perhaps pornography that depicts women with natural bodies and shows them having real orgasms (which is what feminist porn aims to do) can give women a way to enjoy porn without having to feel like they need to perform or look a certain way.

House Bill 4691, known as the Michigan Shared Parenting Act, would change the law to state that children have a right to «substantially equal parenting time» in which courts would try to provide «balance and equality» in the number of overnight stays children have with each parent.