Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law covers The Equality Act 2010 and
other anti-discrimination protections both within the UK legislation and
in the context of EU law.
The UK's approach to ensuring equality for the workforce is notoriously
difficult to navigate, with various aspects of protection being
contained and discussed across a range of statutory and non-statutory
instruments. Although the Equality Act 2010 is often viewed as central
to the equality laws of the UK, there are other key areas that must also
be borne in mind, including atypical worker protection and family
friendly regulation: each of these are discussed to sufficient detail to
enable the reader to gain a working understanding of how each operates.
In considering each of these key areas this text attempts to decipher
and navigate each of them with the end user in mind. The protections,
and the thresholds that need to be satisfied to acquire the protections,
are broken down into their constituent parts and analysed using key case
law and relevant codes of practices with a view to ensuring that their
practical use is understood by the reader. Through adopting this
approach the book ensures that the reader gets to grips with key
concepts that protect on an equality footing.
The text takes account of case law from both UK courts, and European
Courts where this is needed. This helps show the interaction that UK and
EU law has in the area of equality law, and that the systems are
interdependent to some extent.
For those wishing to go beyond the simple practical application of the
law the text touches upon a number of academic debates that exist in the
area of equality law, to further stimulate those with an interest in the
law, but further to highlight some of the perceived weaknesses that
exist with the UK's current approach to equality protection, and whets
the appetite for further discussion.
