Category Archives: Equality

Taking liberties: the Supreme Court lawfare of TransLucent, the Good Law Project, Liberty, and the Trans Legal Clinic

Posted on June 27, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Note: First published on 27 June, this post was regularly updated until 31 August. Now that the EHRC has submitted its revised Code of Practice to the Minister for approval, further developments in the various legal challenges documented below will … Continue reading →

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Select Committee, select nonsense

Posted on June 12, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Social media is currently host to a number of quite astonishing clips from the Parliament TV recording of yesterday’s two-hour oral evidence session of the Trans+ Rights Select Committee of MPs, supposedly on the work of the Equality & Human … Continue reading →

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Difficult transition: Jolyon Maugham KC’s identity crisis

Posted on May 6, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

As noted on this blog last month, it was always going to be fun watching Jolyon Maugham KC and his Good Law Project try to re-invent themselves, following the demise on 4 July last year of the Tory cash cow … Continue reading →

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Stonewall Top 100 Employers: spooked out

Posted on February 17, 2023 by wonkypolicywonk

The main story from this week’s release of the Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2023 is the near total disappearance, since 2022, of government departments and agencies (other than NHS bodies). Last year, the spooks at MI6 sat proudly at #52, … Continue reading →

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Basic Income: What’s occurring?

Posted on August 15, 2022 by wonkypolicywonk

News this week that things may not be working out for some of the employers taking part in what has been billed as the world’s biggest pilot of a four-day week (4DW) got me wondering what has come of the … Continue reading →

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Binary arithmetic

Posted on July 31, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

News that the global Covid19 lockdown has led to two pandas in Hong Kong Zoo mating for the first time in ten years seems as good a reason as any for me to blog, for the first time, about sex. … Continue reading →

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ET claims: no sign of the end of garbage press reports

Posted on May 26, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

Previously on this blog, I have noted that this year sees the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970. And I suppose it was only to be expected that one or more law firms would use … Continue reading →

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Shared Parental Leave: No need for candles

Posted on May 5, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

Until it got wiped out by the Covid19 pandemic, this year was a busy one for #ukemplaw anniversaries. And many of them are (or, at least, were) a cause for celebration: the Equal Pay Act 1970 is 50 years old … Continue reading →

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Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap

Posted on January 17, 2018 by wonkypolicywonk

While I don’t suppose it will protect me from accusations of ‘mansplaining’, I am going to preface this blog with two pre-emptive statements. Firstly, I am wholly committed to eliminating sex discrimination in the workplace, unequal pay, and the gender … Continue reading →

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Give me six. Why not?

Posted on July 7, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Extend the time limit for submitting an employment tribunal claim – from three months to six months – in cases of pregnancy or maternity discrimination. Hmmm. Yep, I was pretty sceptical when serious people – including Equality & Human Rights … Continue reading →

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