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Media – refocus of the discrimination legislation
Please find below the media and comments re the discrimination legislation
Update: Discrimination Legislation review
Dear member, During yesterday’s States meeting, Deputy Michelle Le Clerc made a statement explaining that because of the polarised response received through the discrimination legislation consultation process, the Committee for Employment and Social Security (ESS) intends to “revisit” certain crucial [...]
Purple Tuesday 13th November
Purple Tuesday, which takes place on Tuesday 12th November, is an international call to action focused on changing the customer experience for people with disability. It is a celebration of the purple pound, the spending power of disabled people and their [...]
Myth Busting videos
Drs Buckley and Quinlivan, University of Gallway, share their research and considerable experience re a number of Myths around the Discrimination Legislation proposals Thank you to volunteer Michael for the assistance to transcript the videos for us. You can read [...]
GDA team and funding
On the 30th September, we sadly say goodbye to Trudi Kent our amazing member co-ordinator. We will miss Trudi dearly but know that she and her family will remain connected to the GDA as members. We thank the Deanery Fund [...]
Myth 7: pre-employment questions
Myth 7: Employers in the UK can ask pre-employment questions about existing and past disabilities 25th September 2019 Not true: section 60 of the Equality Act 2010 makes it generally unlawful to ask questions about disability and health before a job offer is made. [...]
Media – from 23rd Sept
articles in relation to the Discrimination legislation from Monday 23rd September 2019
Mike Read – Health sector rep
We welcome Mike Read as a co-optee to the GDA executive committee as the Health sector representative. Mike strengthens the Social Policy team, which includes Catherine Hall as Education representative, Arrun Wilkie, Rob Harnish and Rob Platts. Married, father of [...]
GDA / ESS members meeting
Please find below the slide deck and exceptions document from the GDA and ESS Employment Social Security meeting 17th September 2019 GDA-17-SeptemberDownload Disability-Exceptions-extract-17th-Sept-2019Download
Member media articles
Catherine Hall article for the Guernsey Press 23rd September 2019 Emily-Litten-Comment-Sept-2019Download in the Guernsey Press 20th September 2019
Media from 16th Sept
a few points of clarification Chamber of Commerce has been involved with, and has been represented on the Discrimination Legislation Development Project Team since May 2017.Groups were invited to comment on the Straw Man proposals Nov 2018 - no one provided a responseBoth Chamber [...]
Discrimination in the workplace
Guernsey Press article 13th September 2019