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Action on pay gap
New commission to tackle gender pay gap

The Prime Minister has announced that the Government is setting up a special commission to examine the gender pay gap. Despite decades of equal opportunities legislation, women on average still earn 18 per cent less than their full-time male colleagues, a gap that climbs to 40 per cent when working part-time. The Women and Work… Read more »

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Where now for single equality watchdog?
Criticism of CRE’s decision to reject equality body

There has been criticism today of the Commission for Racial Equality’s (CRE) decision to flatly reject the Government’s proposal for a Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR). The Government’s White Paper “Fairness for All” proposed the establishment of CEHR as a one-stop-shop for all discrimination issues that would subsume the current equality monitors. On… Read more »