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The EHRC said it will not begin enforcement proceedings against companies until six months after the deadline.
The EHRC said it will not begin enforcement proceedings against companies until six months after the deadline.
Hackney lone parent, Ruth Talbot, who set up the Single Parent Rights campaign. - Credit: Single Parent Rights The council has backed calls to add single parents as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act, following a campaign by a Hackney mother. Hackney council is among more than 20 organisations across the UK to have backed the Single Parent Rights campaign set up by local resident Ruth Talbot, after she became “exasperated” by the lack of consideration for single parents during the pandemic. Research by the campaign suggests prejudice and discrimination are widesprea...
Ministers have been accused of failing to take “simple steps” to protect black, Asian and ethnic minority (Bame) communities during the pandemic, with political leaders calling for "decisive action" to help groups that suffer disproportionately high rates of deaths and critical illness from coronavirus. Charities and politicians, including London mayor Sadiq Khan, are calling on the government to implement measures to better monitor the impact...
Tackling inequality should be "led by facts not by fashion" and the government intends to "move well beyond" focusing on issues of sex, race and gender reassignment, a cabinet minister has said. Liz Truss, the women and equalities minister, used a speech on Thursday to set out a "new approach to equality in this country", which she said would be "founded firmly on Conservative values". She outlined an aim to "move well beyond the narrow focus" of protected characteristics, which are defined in law as age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity...