Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide

Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide explains the fundamental changes in the approach to achieving equality and diversity that are occuring as a result of recent UK legislation. The work takes a task-based approach to the subject, suggesting legal solutions to discrete practical problems, and providing clear, pragmatic guidance to enable practitioners to tackle the individual problems they might encounter.

This book provides a clear and practical explanation of both good practice and the legislation behind the new proactive approach that is being adopted. It covers areas that receive no treatment elsewhere and offers guidance to organisations that want to implement equality measures but are unsure of how to do so. This book not only explains the relevant legal concepts but also offers real practical advice on topics such as how to carry out impact statements; how to carry out equality pay audits; and the role of monitoring.

By adopting a task-based approach, focusing on what organisations have to deal with in practice, this work is able to offer a fully-integrated legal analysis of current discrimination law that will be of use to every practitioner working in this field. By combining a traditional legal approach with examples, checklists, and precedents the authors have produced a book that is both highly useful and extremely readable.

Features

• Combines comprehensive coverage of the legal concepts relating to discrimination with real practical advice on how to implement equality measures
• Combines comprehensive coverage of the legal concepts relating to discrimination with real practical advice on how to implement equality measures
  
• Provides practical solutions to legal problems setting the law in a tangible context
  
• Offers pragmatic advice on practical issues-- such as how to carry out impact assessments, how to carry out equal pay audits, and the role of monitoring
  
• Covers both recent and forthcoming UK legislation in relation to the duty to promote equality such as the Equality Act 2006, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
  
• Contains useful checklists, precedents, and examples to assist the reader and to make the book as accessible as possible

You can view a short film on equality and diversity co-produced by Richard Kenyon. The film is split into two parts and you can view either part by following the links below:

• Part 1
• Part 2