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EQUALITY
AND DIVERSITY
The Employment Equality Regulations 2003
We have outlined some of the key
features of the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 (which
came into force on 1 December 2003) and
the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 which came into force
on 2 December 2003. It
covers some key questions:
Acas has produced practical
workplace guidance, for the employer and the employee, which is available on their
website.
Acas operates a telephone helpline (tel: 08457 47 47 47, textphone: 08456 06 16
00) which provides information and advice across a wide range of employment
issues. It also runs an advice line for employers (Equality Direct tel: 0845 600
3444, textphone: 08456 06 16 00) offering good practice guidance on fairness in
the workplace.
If you want to read the text of the Regulations, click on the links below:
The
link below is for those who want a more detailed explanation of the contents of
the Regulations. It is a 55 page document in pdf format and we do not recommend
that you print it. More general information is available on these pages.
The Employment Equality
(Amendment) Regulations 2003
The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation)
(Amendment) Regulations 2003 and Employment Equality (Religion or Belief)
(Amendment) Regulations 2003 amend the principal Regulations. They fulfil our
earlier commitment to outlaw discrimination in the way that pension schemes are
administered. It was not possible to include them in the summer when we laid the
principal regulations before Parliament as the Department for Work and Pensions
were carrying out a review on pensions at the time and we wanted to maintain our
commitment to a joined up approach in implementing the Employment and Race
Directives.
The links below are to the full Regulatory Impact
Assessments for the two sets of amending Regulations:
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