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Sexual orientation discrimination

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	1 Dec 2003	ACAS Guidelines on Religion and Sex	Joy Hankins, Laytons	ELA Briefing	The “Religion or Belief and the Workplace” and “Sexual Orientation and the Workplace” guidelines, which have been published by ACAS, give employers helpful and clear insight into how the new regulatio...
	4 Jul 2007	An Update on Sexual Orientation	Federico Podeschi, Managing Director, LGBT Cymru Helpline	Lecture Notes
	16 Dec 2009	Christian registrar who would not perform civil partnerships did not suffer religious discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Ladele v London Borough of Islington and anor the Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT's decision that a Christian registrar did not suffer religious discrimination when she was threatened with dismi...
	1 Jan 2004	Defining the Grounds of Equality Discrimination	Nicholas De Marco, Blackstone Chambers	ELA Briefing	In December last year the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 and the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 came into force (see ELA Briefing, Decemb...
	4 Dec 2009	EAT holds dismissal for refusal to counsel gay couples not discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd the EAT has held that the dismissal of an employee for refusing to work with homosexuals is not direct religious discrimination, as the dismissal was based on the employ...
	1 Dec 2011	Embarrassment over toilets: tolerating intolerance?	Ginny Harrison, freelance consultant	ELA Briefing	Gender reassignment is probably the least discussed of the nine `protected characteristics' under the Equality Act 2010. Lack of specific policies and misunderstanding risk lost tribunal claims and hi...
	26 Jun 2008	Further details of the Equality Bill released	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Government Equalities Office has today published ‘Framework for a Fairer Future – The Equality Bill’, outlining further details of the content of the proposed Equality Bill. The bill will consolid...
	1 Apr 2005	How Much of a ‘Burden’ is Proving Discrimination?	Cheryl Edmonds, steeles llp	ELA Briefing	On 18 February 2005 the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the consolidated appeals of Igen Ltd v Wong, Chamberlin Solicitors v Emokpae and Brunel University v Webster, overturnin...
	1 Jul 2003	In Brief - Equality Regulations Update	Joanne Owers is a partner at Charles Russell	ELA Briefing	On 8 May the government laid before Parliament the final draft of two sets of regulations outlawing discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief and sexual orientation following consultation (t...
	1 Jun 2005	In Brief - Sexual Orientation	Peter Linstead, Clarendon Chambers	ELA Briefing	The Department of Trade and Industry has been consulting on proposed amendments to the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 based on civil partnership. It is proposed that from De...