News Round-Up
13 January 2025
The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has promised to repeal the Climate Change Act, the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act if he ever becomes Prime Minister.
The Employment Rights Bill contains a nasty surprise: a clause requiring employers to 'protect' workers from overhearing conversations between members of the public that might upset them. Get ready for the Equality Act 2.0.
The Government's Faith Minister Lord Khan has finally admitted that Labour's definition of 'Islamophobia' is at odds with the Equality Act. But there are many more problems with it than that, says Tim Dieppe.
Next has said it could be forced to close stores after losing a landmark legal battle over equal pay and being forced to pay store staff the same as warehouse workers. Why on earth are courts trying to set wages?
Afro hair should be made a protected characteristic under the Equality Act, according to a campaign backed by ex-Spice Girl Mel B.
A domestic abuse charity has been criticised for encouraging "men who identify as women" to apply for a senior £47,000-a-year "women-only" post.
In a dark day for British business, an 'equal pay' claim brought by 3,500 shop assistants at Next has succeeded after an employment tribunal decided their work was "of equal value" to that of (male) warehouse workers.
Rumours are swirling that Harriet Harman, who is retiring as an MP, is set to be appointed as the new Chair of the EHRC, replacing the sensible Baroness Falkner – and heralding a boomtime of trans ideology.
A London theatre has said it is seeking a Chief Executive who is disabled, gay, "criminal class" or "global majority" in a job advert – sparking a backlash.
Google's swift sacking of 50 employees protesting over Gaza is the beginning of the end of the employee activist, says C.J. Strachan. Across the West companies are realising a politicised workplace is a dysfunctional one.
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