How effective have anti-discrimination policies been?
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- How effective have anti-discrimination policies been?
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Weaknesses
- Can be daunting- especially if it concerns an employer as individual may be worried about working relationships and costs
- Indirect discrimination sometimes occurs without the individual realising it.
- People's prejudices can be difficult to challenge regardless of whether legislation or policies exist to combat it
- Cases can be complex and establishing whether discrimination has occurred is often open to interpretaion
- Employers may be careful to hide their discrimination and assert various other reasons for an employee's treatment
- Strengths
- Good guidance exists to give examples of how legislation should be applied
- Substantial case studies that can be used to identify examples of discrimination
- Send a clear message to public authorities and employers that discrimination will not be tolerated
- Prosecution, compensation can be sought via tribunals or the court system.
- Existing legislation changes attitudes and in turn impacts cultural and societal norms
- Weaknesses
- Equal rights legislation
- 2000
- Forces had to begin analysing their polices and practices to check they were not inherently racist
- Other organisations had to do the same and broaden the process to ensure against discrimination on the grounds of sex, disability and age
- 1998
- Legislation required organisations and public spaces had to ensure disabled access
- 2006
- Discrimination on grounds of age is no longer legal
- State recognises the legal status of same-sex marriages
- 1970's and 1980's
- Racial discrimination was strengthened to ensure that provision was made to ensure public bodies were effective in preventing race discrimination
- Adapted to include discrimination on grounds of sex.
- 2000
- Strengths and weaknesses
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