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Public Sector Equality Duty review launched for all the wrong reasons
19 December 2012
By Carola Towle, UNISON National LGBT Officer
The Public Sector Equality Duty review has been launched too early and is driven by politics, not the thirst for ending discrimination and disadvantage in our society.
Does the noise from ice cream vans really affect more people than cutting employment rights, Oliver Letwin?
13 December 2012
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
Oliver Letwin, Cabinet Office Minister responsible for coordinating government policy, tries to defend the government's new approach to consultations (that is, making them more difficult to respond to), to the Secondary Legislation and Scrutiny Committee.
Privatising public services: threats and alternatives
12 December 2012
By John Medhurst
John Medhurst explains how so-called "mutuals" cropping up within the public sector are far from employee-led, and in fact disadvantage workers and attack employment rights.
Experts discuss the future of equality law in a time of austerity
06 December 2012
By Roger Jeary
A report on yesterday's Equality and Discrimination conference, at which seven experts discussed the future of equality law under the current government and the effect of recent legislation on protected groups.
Boris threatens EU protection for workers' rights
05 December 2012
By Roger Jeary
The EU may not be perfect, but we should not allow the Conservative Party to drive skeptics toward abolishing the only protection some of our workers' rights have.
The Coalition and the Arts: culture and revolvers
21 November 2012
By John Medhurst
In the 1930s leading Nazi Hermann Goering once said: “When I hear the word Culture, I reach for my revolver”. So, apparently, does the UK’s Coalition government.
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