New equality law: Resources and contacts
Section seven of the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide to new equality laws. Other sections.
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General
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration
Service (Acas)
www.acas.org.uk
Tel: 08457 474747
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
www.cipd.co.uk
Tel: 020 8971 9000
Department for Education and Skills
www.dfes.gov.uk
Tel: 0870 000 2288
Department of Trade and Industry
www.dti.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7215 5000
Department for Work and Pensions
www.dwfp.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7712 2171
Employers' Law
www.employers-law.com
Subscriptions: 01444 445566
Equality Direct (confidential advice service
for small businesses)
www.equalitydirect.org.uk
Tel: 0845 600 3444
Equality and Diversity Forum
www.equalityanddiversityform.org.uk
Tel: 020 7843 1597
Labour Research Department
www.lrd.org.uk
Tel: 020 7928 3649
National Institute for Adult Continuing
Education
21 De Montfort Street
Leicester LE1 7GE
Tel: Tel: 0116 204 2843
www.niace.org.uk
Personnel Today, Personnel Today.com
www.personneltoday.com
Trades Union Congress
www.tuc.org.uk
Tel: 020 7636 4030
Equality and Diversity -The Way Ahead consultation
document, 2003
Discusses issues common to all strands of
discrimination in employment: age, disability, gender, race, religion or
belief, and sexual orientation.
Tel: 0800 389 5865
www.dti.gov.uk/er/equality.age
The Work Foundation
www.theworkfoundation.com
Tel: 0870 165 6700
Age discrimination
Age Concern Cymru
www.accymru.org.uk
Tel: 029 2037 1566
Age Concern England
www.ace.org.uk
Tel: 020 8765 7200
Age Concern Northern Ireland
Email: info@ageconcernni.org
Tel: 028 9024 5729
Age Concern Scotland
www.ageconcernscotland.org.uk
Tel: 0131 220 3345
Age, pensions and retirement: Attitudes and Expectations, CIPD, March 2003
Age Positive
www.agepositive.gov.uk
Agequake: Riding the Demographic Rollercoaster Shaking Business, Finance and Our World, Paul Wallace, Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1999, 2001
Aging and Work - A View From the United States, Sara E. Rix, Senior Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute, February 2004.
Avoiding the Age Trap, Employers Forum on Age
Being Positive About Age Diversity at Work: A Practical Guide for Business, Age Positive, 2002.
Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, University
of Surrey
www.surrey.ac.uk/Education/crow
Contact Professor Stephen McNair, Centre Director, Senate House, University of
Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH.
Email: s.mcnair@surrey.ac.uk
Equality and Diversity: Age Matters (Age Consultation
2003), Department of Trade
and Industry, 2003.
www.dti.gov.uk/er/equality/age.htm
50+ Europe: Strategies to Overcome Barriers to
Employment for the Over-50s, Leonardo da Vinci European Training for the UK.
Project co-ordinator: Jan Shepherd.
Email: j.shepherd@surrey.ac.uk
The Change Agenda: The Challenge of the Age, CIPD.
The Essential Guide to Bias-Free Recruitment: Age Trap? Is it time to ditch chronology? Employers Forum on Age, 2004.
Employers Forum on Age
www.efa.org.uk
Tel: 0845 456 2495
Eternal Youths: How the baby boomers are having their
time again, James Harkin and Julia
Huber, Demos, 2004. Produced in partnership with Centrica and the Saga Group.
www.demos.co.uk
Tel: 020 7401 5330
Factors Affecting the Labour Market Participation of Older Workers, Department for Work and Pensions, 2004. (Report may be accessed through Age Positive's website and clicking on 'Publications'. For a hard copy, email Paul.Noakes@dwp.gsi.gov.uk)
Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
Invicta House
Trafalgar Place
Brighton BN1 4DW
Tel: 01273 627600
www.opra.gov.uk
Email: helpdesk@opra.gov.uk
Older People Learning: Myths and Realities, Alex Withnall, Veronica McGivney and Jim Soulsby, Department for Education and Skills and the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), 2004
Staying Ahead of the Curve 2004: Employers' Best
Practices for Mature Workers, AARP (US)
and Mercer Human Resources Consulting, August 2004.
www.aarp.org/research/
The New Old: Why the baby boomers won't be pensioned off, Julia Huber and Paul Skidmore, Demos, 2003. Produced in partnership with Age Concern England
Third Age Employment Network
www.taen.org.uk
Tel: 020 7843 1590
Disability discrimination
@Liberty, professional disability training organisation
www.atlibertyonline.com
Tel: 020 8570 6585
AbilityNet charity (provides consultancy for employers
on system and workstation adaptations and other services related to disabled
employees' IT needs)
www.abilitynet.org.uk
Another Planet? Interim Results of the Disability Capital 2003 Survey, Mayor of London, www.london.gov.uk
The Disability Communication Guide, Employers Forum on Disability
Delivering Equality for Disabled People, Department for Work and Pensions
Disability Matters consultancy
www.disabilitymatters.com
Tel: 01264 811120
Disability Rights Commission
www.drc-gb.org
Tel: 0845 762 2633
Employers Forum on Disability
www.employers-forum.co.uk
Tel: 020 7403 3020
Global Applied Disability Research and Information
Network on Employment and Training
www.gladnet.org
HIV@Work: Addressing stigma and discrimination,
National AIDS Trust. Practical information
resource pack for employers with fact files on HIV and AIDS-related issues
including legal obligations under disability discrimination law, fair and
equitable recruitment, workplace training and how to create a policy on HIV and
AIDS.
Tel: 020 7814 6767
visit online shopping at www.nat.org.uk
Inclusive Design (project of the Royal Society for the
encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
www.inclusivedesign.org.uk
Tel: 01926 312847
National Register of Access Consultants
www.nrac.org.uk
Tel: 020 7735 7845
Religious belief or faith
BBC Religion
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
Board of Deputies of British Jews
www.bod.org.uk
Tel: 020 7543 5400
The Buddhist Society
www.thebuddhistsociety.org
Tel: 020 7834 5858
INFORM (Information Network Focus On Religious
Movements), London School of Economics
www.inform.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7955 7654
The Jain Centre
www.jaincentre.com
Tel: 0116 254 3091
MultiFaith Centre, University of Derby
www.multifaithnet.org
Tel: 01332 591285
Muslim Council of Britain
www.mcb.org.uk
Tel: 020 8432 0585/6
National Council of Hindu Temples (UK)
Tel: 01923 856269
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the UK
www.bahai.org.uk
Tel: 020 7590 8785
Network of Sikh Organisations UK
www.nsouk.co.uk
Tel: 020 8544 8037
Religion or Belief and the Workplace, Acas Publications
The Change Agenda: Religious Discrimination - An Introduction to the Law, Annabel Rutherford and Robert Pullen of Incomes Data Service for the CIPD, 2003.
Religious holidays and festivals
www.interfaithcalendar.org
World Zoroastrian Organisation
www.w-z-o.org
Racial discrimination
Commission for Racial Equality
www.cre.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7939 000
Sexual orientation
The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations: Guidelines for Employers, Stonewall.
Gay Business Association
www.gba.org.uk
Tel: 08707 429249
Lesbian and Gay Workers' Rights, Labour Research Department Booklets, December 2003.
Stonewall
www.stonewall.org.uk
Tel: 020 7881 9440
Single equality body and act
Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Structure,
functions and powers
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt/jtrights.htm
Fairness for all: A new commission for equality and
human rights
www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk
www.dti.gov.uk/publications
Tel: 0870 150 2500
Fax 0870 150 2333
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