Category Archives: Equality Bill

June 10, 2011

Red tape and fairness

This is the fifth in our series of blogs about the ‘Red Tape Reduction’ consultation.  In this blog, we look at ideas about what is fair You don’t have to spend more than 30 years in employee relations and employment … Continue reading →

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June 1, 2011

What I say, or what I mean? Red tape and employment law

This is the fourth in our series of blogs about the ‘Red Tape Reduction’ consultation.  In this blog, we look at the opportunity to simplify legislation Over the last 30 odd years I have seen a number of ‘simplifications’, and … Continue reading →

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May 20, 2011

Simplifying the complex – red tape and employment law

red tape is not so easy to simply when you get away from the knee jerk rhetoric and start doing the thinking needed Continue reading →

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May 12, 2011

Bonfire of the delusion – do we have the power to repeal employment law?

The government has announced more consultation on employment law, this time on TUPE and collective redundancies.  Both sets of legislation derive from EU directives. In our last blog, we looked at whether we are in fact over-regulated and over-legislated. a) … Continue reading →

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May 3, 2011

Bonfire of the Red Tape Vanities

The government has almost finished its red tape consultation exercise …… Continue reading →

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July 7, 2009

Equality and Reality

Organisations should look beyond compliance and get the best people they can to help them survive the recession and plan for growth Continue reading →

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June 24, 2009

When does performance management become bullying?

Where does performance management end and bullying begin? Continue reading →

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June 10, 2009

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Diverse discrimination rights can be hard to align in the workplace. UK HR managers face interesting dilemmas reconciling employment law and multi culturalism Continue reading →

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May 21, 2009

Equality v Diversity

How do you respect a culture that won’t respect you? The Equality Commission are to bring about Equality and Diversity – is this possible? Continue reading →

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May 15, 2009

Paying for other people’s mistakes – the Equality Bill

The Equality Bill will make it hard for employers to avoid paying for their managers’ discrimination and won’t improve protection for real victims of bullying and discrimination at work Continue reading →

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