Sentences with phrase «discrimination legislation»

In the longer term, other strands of discrimination legislation may be changed so that there is more consistency between the protection offered.

It appears that these universities are using the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act - state legislation - to bypass national sex discrimination legislation and target employment opportunities to women.

It argues that the rule of 85, which applies to employees whose age and years of service add up to 85, breaches European age discrimination legislation.

The present situation is that any employee protected by discrimination legislation is legally protected from harassment and has a remedy in the employment tribunal.

Then came the general election and it soon became painfully clear that the new coalition government had no appetite for such discrimination legislation.

This is such a real concern that the Single Equality Act and sex discrimination legislation in the UK protects the right to breastfeed.

You've been victimised if you have been penalised for having previously taken an action under discrimination legislation — perhaps to assert your own rights or to help a colleague do so.

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC), which backed Sharon Coleman, says her case concerns the interpretation of the EU's Equal Treatment Framework Directive and its impact on UK disability discrimination legislation.

The removal of immunities from gender discrimination legislation for all religions would be tantamount to the proscription of Catholicism, orthodox Judaism and Islam.

The CJEU also dismissed the argument that an inability to have a child amounts to a «disability» under EU discrimination legislation.

This difficulty in mandating an outcome also reflects the underlying intention, which is not to penalise employers, but to encourage them to comply with discrimination legislation.

Her former employer argued that UK discrimination legislation did include protection from «associative discrimination» and questioned the authority of the chairman of the original tribunal to refer the issue to the ECJ.

reinstating the application of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and state / territory anti discrimination legislation for the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation.

The omnibus bill, first introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year, includes anti-human trafficking, pay equity and housing discrimination legislation.

Yesterday the Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, called on the BBC to withdraw Griffin's Question Time invitation because the BNP is currently «an unlawful body» after the party told a court last week it would have to amend its whites - only membership rules to meet discrimination legislation.

She listed the issues she believes are stalled under the current leadership, including the Women's Equality Act, campaign finance reform, an increase in the minimum wage, environmental issues and gender discrimination legislation called the GENDA Act.

«Because of the negative image portrayed by most mainstream media and the breed discrimination legislation in some municipalities, Pit bull type dogs tend to spend longer time in shelters waiting for homes and there are few rescue or community resources in Quebec to help these dogs.

That Order also contains various repeals to existing duties under the previous discrimination legislation.

And as other discrimination legislation is drafted in a similar way to DDA 1995 we would expect the same tests to apply to discrimination on grounds of race, sex, sexual orientation and belief too.

The principal issue of law to be decided by the Supreme Court was therefore whether discrimination legislation requires that the reason for the disadvantage suffered by the group be established and that the reason why the individual has suffered from that disadvantage be the same.

Of the various approaches to tackling the problem, caste - specific discrimination legislation was identified as the most effective.

Whilst many forms of potential discrimination are easy to identify and avoid, the full effects of modern discrimination legislation are often unseen and misunderstood, especially where it comes to families or dependants.

Litigation about the compatibility of a major airline's PHI schemes with age discrimination legislation.

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the world's first disability discrimination legislation, let us all make a pledge to make 2011 the year we redouble our efforts to tackle the barriers that prevent our blind and partially - sighted ex-Service men and women from a playing a full and active role in society.

In the event, the Labour government decided not to add caste to the list of protected characteristics in the Equality Bill, citing as the main reason the lack of evidence of caste discrimination in spheres covered by discrimination legislation.

Employers also need to consider the impact of discrimination legislation and particularly whether the employee's right to express any religious or philosophical beliefs has been infringed.

«It appears that these universities are using the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act — state legislation — to bypass national sex discrimination legislation and target employment opportunities to women,» he writes, while admitting this approach is unlikely to be taken up by schools anytime soon.

The UK Supreme Court has today removed this concern, by confirming that arbitrators are not «employees» within the meaning of UK and EU discrimination legislation.

Even if it is not a named authority, it may still chose to publish an equality scheme to demonstrate that is has complied with its general duty — in much the same way as an equal opportunities policy, though not compulsory, is currently used to demonstrate an awareness of an organisation's obligations under discrimination legislation.

Some MPs, of all major parties, led by former Synod member Frank Field, would go further and legislate to remove the Church of England's immunities from gender discrimination legislation.

Bleuse is interesting because so many British labour laws were introduced or amended to comply with European law, including all our discrimination legislation.

The 2010 Equality Act introduced in October of that year was the single biggest piece of discrimination legislation...

It sounds harsh, but firms feel they are being pushed down that track by the discrimination legislation.

Practitioners need to be alert to far - reaching changes made to the sex discrimination legislation, says David Malamatenios

Rachel has a thorough understanding of discrimination legislation and has acted for a number of clients in the Employment Tribunal.

Employers that seek to reduce their personal injury risks by removing vulnerable people from those jobs risk getting smacked on the other side of the face by the disability discrimination legislation, under which compensation payments can reach similar levels.

There are many differences between claims for harassment under PHA 1997 and under discrimination legislation.

The hospice disputed that she was disabled within the meaning of the discrimination legislation or that her complaint was genuine.

The consultation paper attempted to draw a distinction in relation to employees between the discrimination legislation and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA 1997) on the basis that the latter is designed to combat stalkers.

- A definition of harassment should be consistent with those in discrimination legislation and one that does not require a course of conduct.

«Linking Targets» The issues of partner performance and rewards are rising on law firm agendas, especially with the impact of new age discrimination legislation.

New South Wales is the only jurisdiction that does not have a clear special measures provision in its discrimination legislation.