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Equality Act 2010 guidance
A new Equality Act comes into force from October 2010. We have created a series of guidance documents to help explain the Act and provide practical examples on how the law has changed. We currently have guidance for employers, workers, service providers and service users, and will be adding guidance for education providers and students in September. A web based version of the guidance will be launched mid August.
Please note: the following guidance does not come into to force until 1 October 2010.
Guidance for employers
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What equality law means for you as an employer: when you recruit someone to work for you
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What equality law means for you as an employer: working hours, flexible working and time off
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What equality law means for you as an employer: pay and benefits
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What equality law means for you as an employer: training, development, promotion and transfer
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What equality law means for you as an employer: managing workers
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What equality law means for you as an employer: dismissal, redundancy, retirement and after a worker has left
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Good equality practice for employers: equality policies, equality training and monitoring
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Guidance for workers
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Your rights to equality at work: when you apply for a job
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Your rights to equality at work: working hours, flexible working and time off
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Your rights to equality at work: pay and benefits
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Your rights to equality at work: training, development, promotion and transfer
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Your rights to equality at work: how you are managed
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Your rights to equality at work: dismissal, redundancy, retirement and after you have left a job
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Guidance for service providers
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What equality law means for your association, club or society
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What equality law means for your business
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What equality law means for your voluntary and community sector organisation (including charities and religion or belief organisations)
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Guidance for service users
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Your rights to equality as a member, associate member or guest of an association, club or society
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Your rights to equality from businesses providing goods, facilities or services to the public
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Your rights to equality from the criminal and civil justice systems and national security
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Your rights to equality from healthcare and social care services
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Your rights to equality from local councils, government departments and immigration
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Your rights to equality from Parliaments, politicians and political parties
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Your rights to equality from voluntary and community sector organisations (including charities and religion or belief organisations)
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http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legislative-framework/equality-bill/e...
Equality Act
Our work on the Equality Act 2010
This section contains information about the Commission's work to support the creation of The Equality Act 2010 (previously referred to as the Equality Bill). We want to see a modern, single legal framework, providing clearer, streamlined law that is more effective at tackling disadvantage and discrimination.
Latest updates
Draft Code of Practice on Equal Pay
Earier this year we ran a series of Codes of Practice consultations. The draft Code of Practice on Equal Pay has now been approved by the Secretary of State for the Home Office and laid before Parliament.
View the draft Code of Practice on equal pay
Equality Act 2010: What do I need to know?
The Government Equalities Office have produced a series of summary guides Equality Act 2010: What do I need to know?, setting out clearly what the new laws will mean for business, the public sector, the voluntary sector and the public, helping people understand their new responsibilities and rights. The Commission will be producing much more comprehensive guidance documents in August 2010.
View the summary guide on the Government Equalities Office website.
Consultation on Guidance and Codes of Practice
The Commission has been in discussion with the Government Equalities Office about producing both statutory and non statutory guidance, some of which will be published prior to the Act's implementation, to help everyone understand the new Act and how equalities legislation will change.
Between January and April 2010 we consulted on draft non-statutory guidance in the areas of employment, services, public functions and associations, and education. We produced two versions of each set of guidance, one aimed at people relying on the law to protect their rights and the other at those who have responsibilities under the law. The purpose of the consultation was to ensure the guidance would be as useful and informative as possible. The consultation closed on 16 April.
We are currently reviewing all the responses submitted through the consultation period and will be revising the non statutory guidance in light of the comments we’ve received in July 2010.
Although the consultation is closed you can still access our consultation portal to review your responses.
We also consulted separately about the draft Codes of Practice. This consultation is also closed.
Find out more: Equality Bill consultations
Our Briefing Papers
In the Summary of our Response we outline the Commission's response to the bill, in particular the provisions for a socio-economic duty, outlawing age discrimination, introducing a single public sector duty, tackling the gender pay gap, promoting equality through procurement, clarifying aspects of discrimination law and positive action.
We have also produced several briefings in the course of the Bill’s Parliamentary passage. Our most recent briefings are for January's debate in the Lords Committee.
Further details of the Equality Act
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legislative-framework/equality-bill/