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Published: 22 Mar 2016
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is today calling for urgent action to be taken as new research suggests more than three quarters of pregnant women and new mothers - the equivalent of 390,000 women across Britain and 17,000 in Wales - experience negative and potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year.
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Published: 22 Mar 2016
New research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission today suggests that around three quarters of pregnant women and new mothers in Scotland, the equivalent of over 30, 000 women, experience negative or potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year.
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Published: 10 Mar 2016
The 2016 Annual Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Reverend Aled Edwards, who is Chief Executive of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales), Secretary of the Interfaith Council for Wales and a member of the Commission’s Wales Committee.
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Published: 02 Mar 2016
Thousands of people could be at risk of being denied jobs and services each year due to unlawful, discriminatory adverts, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warns today.
Complaints about adverts which discriminate against older workers or on the basis of sex appear the most common but people ...
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Published: 25 Feb 2016
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) welcomes today’s announcement by the Scottish Government of a number of commitments which will help to tackle the problem of discrimination faced by pregnant women and new mothers every year.
These commitments follow on from a GB-wide report publish...
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Published: 19 Feb 2016
The Scottish legal team is pleased to present the third in our series of four webcasts, ‘equality: online’. These webcasts provide flexible training to practitioners across Britain who work with legal issues on a day-to-day basis. You can do this training at your desk, at a time that suits you and you can go through it as many times as you like.
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Published: 12 Feb 2016
Commenting in response to Government publishing draft regulations to make gender pay gap reporting mandatory for large companies, Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO at the Equality and Human Rights Commission said:
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Published: 10 Feb 2016
Commenting in response to the Intelligence Security Committee’s (ISC) report which raises concerns over the lack of protection for people’s privacy in the Investigatory Powers Bill, a spokesperson for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:
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Published: 05 Feb 2016
Commenting in response to the Government’s announcement today of a review into the lack of progression of ethnic minorities in business, a Commission spokesperson said:
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Published: 04 Feb 2016
Commenting in response to Grosvenor shopping centre in Macclesfield banning people with particular disabilities from using the Centre because they may not be able to escape in an emergency, Lord Holmes, Disability Commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:
