25 May 2012
The government has announced a raft of reforms which aims to simplify equality legislation, remove unnecessary regulation and reduce the burden on businesses.
This follows a review of equalities legislation by the government's Red Tape Challenge. Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May says the announcement "strikes the right balance between protecting people from discrimination and letting businesses get on with the job."
The reforms include the following areas:
Third party harassment Removing Tribunals Recommendation Powers Removing Questionnaire Procedure Review of Public Sector Equality Duty Reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
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IT’S TIME TO TALK: ACAS LAUNCHES NEW GUIDANCE
30 May 2012
Acas, the workplace relations experts, have launched new guidance to help managers have difficult conversations in the workplace.
As a manager or supervisor, being able to talk about sensitive and emotive issues is an important part of the job but it's also one of the toughest. If handled badly, these conversations - about performance, conduct or personal matters - can damage team dynamics, lower morale and badly effect levels of attendance and performance. In difficult economic circumstances, when your resources are already stretched, is this outcome really an option? A survey by CEDR found that 63% of managers and employees questioned felt their organisation was not prepared to deal with challenging conversations. Acas' own experience tells us that no matter how big or small the problem it is often made a lot worse by the mishandling of these critical one-to-one interactions.
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ENTERPRISE BILL AND EXPANDED ROLE FOR ACAS WELCOMED
30 May 2012
Acas have welcomed government plans under the Enterprise Bill that all potential employment tribunal claims will be offered early conciliation.
Ed Sweeney, Acas Chair said:
"Today's announcement will mean changes to the work of our experienced team of conciliators, systems and processes. We are already working closely with BIS to plan the new service and using our extensive experience in delivering conciliation services to ensure early conciliation is delivered effectively.
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