The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 1 on its own caused numerous amendments at the start of the year, some consequential and others substantial, including reworking definitions of direct and indirect discrimination.
Changes to legislation: Equality Act 2010 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 April 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date.
The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 are intended to enshrine existing EU-derived protections that have stayed in place until now under the REUL Act, and are set to expire at midnight on December 31st, 2023. So counterintuitively, there would be changes with out an amendment. But there shouldn’t be demonstrable changes with one.
The government has launched a consultation on reforms to eight areas of equality law, which include a new equal pay enforcement body, expanding equal pay laws for race and disability, and enacting dual discrimination provisions in the Equality Act. Rob Moss examines the new equality law proposals.
These Regulations reproduce the effects of retained EU law in relation to several aspects of the Equality Act 2010 (c. 15). They amend the Equality Act 2010 to ensure that current rights continue once the interpretive effects of EU law on the United Kingdom’s statute book have been removed, at the end of 2023, by the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28). In particular ...
Discover the key changes to the UK’s Equality Act 2010 coming into effect in October 2024. This article outlines essential updates, including expanded harassment protections, new definitions of gender reassignment, and enhanced support for disabled workers. Learn how these changes impact businesses and find practical steps to ensure compliance and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.
In this month’s employment law round-up we are looking at the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on “sex” in the Equality Act 2010. We also highlight a long-awaited change to modern slavery reporting guidance, plus signpost a significant call for evidence on equality law. Finally, we address a series of tribunals that are worth practitioners considering.
Practical impact of the Equality Act 2010 amendments The EAAR codify a number of important EU equality rights into our domestic law from 1 January 2024.
The Equality Act 2010 refers frequently to pregnant women, but because trans women cannot get pregnant, but some trans men can, by referring to ‘women’, it says Parliament must have intended ‘woman’ to mean ‘biological female’, as only ‘biological females’ can become pregnant.
The Equality Act was passed in the UK in 2010 to consolidate and simplify numerous separate laws which were related to discrimination, harassment and victimisation in the workplace based around nine protected characteristics: age, race, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. At the time, […]
The Supreme Court ruled that in the Equality Act 2010 (the Act), ‘sex’ means biological sex. This means that, under the Act: A ‘woman’ is a biological woman or girl (a person born female) A ‘man’ is a biological man or boy (a person born male) If somebody identifies as trans, they do not change sex for the purposes of the Act, even if they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC ...
The table below sets out a summary of the changes made by to the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) by the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023, SI 2023/1425, in force 1 January 2024. Further details are available in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Regulations.
Key changes 1.Expanded definition of disability Under the current Equality Act 2010, a person is disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
The Amendment Regulations came into effect on 1 January 2024. The purpose of the Amendment Regulations is to reproduce in the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) certain interpretive effects of retained EU law which provide protection against discrimination, and which would otherwise have ceased to apply from the end of 2023 because of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023. The changes ...
The Government has published draft legislation to amend the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) which will take effect from 1 January 2024.
Under the current Equality Act 2010, a person has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to ...
Changes to legislation: Equality Act 2010, Part 2 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 26 April 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
WHAT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT THE CHANGE? The Equality Act (“EqA”) 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (“the Regulations”) will amend the EqA 2010 to protect certain rights against discrimination derived from EU law, so they are not lost by the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023.
