The policy simplifies, strengthens and harmonises the current legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment. It promotes a fair and more equal society and sets new standard for those who provide public services to treat everyone with dignity and respect. The Equality Act bring together over 116 separate pieces of legislation. Over the 116 pieces of legislation, there is also the main pieces. They are nine of them and these are: * Equal Pay Act 1970 * Sex Discrimination Act 1975 * Race Relations Act 1976 * Disability Discrimination Act 1995 * Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 * Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Employment * Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 regulations 2003 * Equality Act 2006, Part 2 * Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 Other than the acts that are covered by the legation, there are nine characteristics that are also protected by it and these are: * Age * Disability * Gender reassignment * Marriage and civil partnership * Pregnancy and maternity * Race * Religion or belief * Sex * Sexual orientation The Equality Act basically provides a code for each policy that it protects.
According to Merriam-Webster Prejudice is defined as (1) a preconceived judgment or opinion or (2) an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. (Merriam-webster) They also define discrimination as (a) the act, practice, or an instance of discrimintaing categorically rather than individually or (b) Prejudiced or prejudicial outlook action or treatment. (Merriam-Webster) These two concepts differ yet are similar. While both prejudice and discrimination require a minority party there are some differences. Prejudice is an outlook on a race or culture where as discrimination requires an action against a minority.
The nine main pieces of legislation that have merged are: • Equal Pay Act 1970 • Sex Discrimination Act 1975 • Race Relations Act 1976 • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 • Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 • Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 • Equality Act 2006, Part 2 • Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 1.3 Outline why legislation relating to employment exists: Legislation and regulations are established to provide a framework of acceptable practice which all who are governed by that framework must adhere to. Legislation and regulation provide a protection for the public against practice that is thought to be unacceptable in the light of commonly agreed moral or other ethical beliefs 1.4 Identify sources and
Everyone would have the guaranteed rights of fundamental liberties. The difference principle gives unequal distributions as long as they benefit the worst off (Selections from John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Reprinted in: Manuel Velasquez, Ethics: Theory and Practice (Englewood Cliffs, N. P.139). Rawls says that for the first principle, basic liberties are important because of moral powers. He says that people need a sense of reasonable justice that can amount to agreements and they need to be able to pursue what is good. He says that for the second principle, inequalities can be permitted if everyone is better off.
Racial Equality: “A North Star Yet to Shine” ------------------------------------------------- Abstract: This writing will look into Howard Winant’s Racism: From Domination to Hegemony, along with the photographs of Nikki S. Lee’s “Hip-Hop Project” and “Hispanic Project.” Howard Winant discusses the ways in which racism has changed and why superiority among races will still exist in his writing. Winant defines racism as “the routinized outcome of practices that create or reproduced hierarchical social structures based on essentialized racial categories” (129). Those in a higher social structure often view those who come from a lower social structure differently. As a result, this can lead to racism. Winant describes the new idea of racial hegemony as one that “operates in societies and institutions that explicitly condemn prejudice and discrimination” (128).
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title Vll of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It includes any unwelcome advances requests for sexual favors and any other verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature which meets any one of the following three criteria: In determining whether one of the above criteria is met, the standard to be applied is that of the reasonable victim of the same gender as the victim. For example, the perspective of a “reasonable female victim” should be applied when the victim is a woman. 1. Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term condition of the individual’s employment.
It can help us to find out anything we want to know about any other races that we are interested in. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethic group or culture.
Conceptual Framework Racial identity theorists have contended that individuals process racial stimuli through various identity statuses (Carter, 1995). Racial identity statuses are thought to influence or shape aspects of self such race, racial group in relation to other non-dominant racial groups, and view of the dominant racial group. For Black Americans, racial identity includes four ego identity statuses; Pre Encounter, Encounter, Immersion-Emersion, and Internalization (Helms, Jernigan, & Mascher, 2005). Each ego identity status is associated with distinct cognitive, behavioral and affective states. Pre Encounter is associated with a worldview that contends that race is not salient to personality identity.
There is legislation in place to enforce equality and protect people from inequality; this is the Equality Act 2010 which replaced the Equality Act 2006. The Equality Act 2006, which received Royal Assent on 16th February 2006, had three main purposes; • To establish the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) • To make discrimination unlawful on the grounds of religion or belief in the provision of goods, facilities and services, the disposal and management of premises, education and the exercise of public functions • To create a duty on the public authorities to promote equality of opportunity between men and women, and to prohibit sex discrimination in the exercise of public functions. The Primary purpose of the Equality Act 2010, which came into force on 1st October 2010, is to protect a wide
For the first time, the exclusion and segregation of people with disabilities was viewed as discrimination. Previously, it had been assumed that the problems faced by people with disabilities, such as unemployment and lack of education, were inevitable consequences of the physical or mental limitations imposed by the disability itself (Fleischer; Zames 2011). As with racial minorities and women, Congress recognized that legislation was necessary to eradicate discriminatory policies and practices. The Rehabilitation Act contains five sections that address different aspects of equal opportunity for people with disabilities. First, Section 501 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in themfederal government and requires affirmative action in the hiring of people with disabilities by government agencies (Fleischer; Zames 2011).