Promoting Equality and Diversity A Practitioner's Guide

• 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

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.