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Promoting Equality and Diversity

Promoting Equality and Diversity A Practitioner's Guide

Author: Henrietta Hill; Richard Kenyon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199235452
Published In: January 2008
Format: Paperback , 496 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Combines comprehensive coverage of the legal concepts relating to discrimination with real practical advice on how to implement equality measures
Adopts a task based approach drawing together all the "strands" of discrimination to provide a fully integrated legal analysis
Provides practical solutions to legal problems setting the law in a tangible context
Offers pragmatic advice on practical issues, such as how to carry out impact assessments, how to carry out equal pay audits, and the role of monitoring
Covers both recent and forthcoming legislation in relation to the duty to promote equality such as the Equality Act 2006, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Contains useful checklists, precedents, and examples to assist the reader and to make the book as accessible as possible

Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide

explains the fundamental changes in the approach to achieving equality and diversity that are occurring as a result of recent legislation. The work takes a task based approach to the subject, suggesting legal solutions to discrete practical problems, and providing clear, pragmatic guidance to enable practitioners to tackle the individual problems they might encounter.

This book provides a clear and practical explanation of both good practice and the legislation behind the new proactive approach that is being adopted. It covers areas that receive no treatment elsewhere and offers guidance to organisations that want to implement equality measures but are unsure of how to do so. This book not only explains the relevant legal concepts but also offers real practical advice on topics such as how to carry out impact statements; how to carry out equality pay audits; and the role of monitoring.

By adopting a task based approach, focusing on what organisations have to deal with in practice, this work is able to offer a fully integrated legal analysis of current discrimination law that will be of use to every practitioner working in this field. By combining a traditional legal approach with examples, checklists, and precedents the authors have produced a book that is both highly useful and extremely readable.

Readership: This book will appeal to both barristers and solicitors who advise on equality issues in private practice and in-house within private companies, law centres and public authorities. Whilst this book is primarily aimed at those practitioners who advise employers it will also be of use to those advising employees as well. There is likely to be strong secondary readership of this work by a number of people, ranging from human resource professionals and equality and diversity professionals, to students and academic lawyers keen to get a more practical handle on how diversity issues work in practice.

1: Introduction
2: The Legal Framework
3: The public duty to promote equality
4: Audits, monitoring and impact assessments
5: Procurement and Outsourcing
6: Positive Action and Occupational Requirements
7: Recruitment and Promotion
8: Family-friendly and flexible working
9: Attendance management
10: Religious practice, dress codes and freedom of expression
11: Harrassment
12: Handling requests for information and grievances
13: Ending employment
14: Managing litigation
15: The Commission for Equality and Human Rights and a Single Equality Act: the future?