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BREAKING NEWS THE EQUALITY BILL UPDATED
03-06-2010
The Equality Bill recently completed its third reading in the House of Lords, resulting in amendments. The Bill now returns to the House of Commons.
Below is a brief summary of the Lords’ amendments to this very important new legislation.
General changes to the Bill:
- Adding a power to prohibit ‘caste discrimination’ as part of ‘race discrimination’.
- Making it explicit reasonable adjustments for disabled people includes taking reasonable steps to provide information in accessible formats, when information is provided which would put disabled people at a substantial disadvantage.
- Ensuring that all people who conduct religious marriages can continue to opt out if reasonably believe that a marriage involves someone who has ‘changed gender’.
- Extending protection against discrimination because of pregnancy and maternity to pupils in schools.
- Removing the prohibition on civil partnerships taking place in religious premises.
- Clarifying “substantial” as used in relation to disability, means something which is not minor or trivial.
Disability:
- Requiring schools to provide auxiliary aids for disabled pupils, where reasonable.
- Made clear that the costs of reasonable adjustments cannot generally be passed on to a disabled person.
- Making it unlawful to ask job applicants disability and health questions before job offers, except in prescribed circumstances.
- Strengthening the protection for disabled people taking or being awarded qualifications.
- Made clear the need to take account of disabled people’s disabilities in the public sector Equality Duty,
Equal pay:
- Made clear that a claimant can compare his or her pay (as is already the case) with a predecessor in the job as well as with current work colleagues.
- Clarifying the need to justify differential pay based on factors that may involve indirect discrimination.
- Widening the scope of protected pay disclosures.
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