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What discrimination costs

Size doesn’t matter. One man and his dog, or AstraZeneca, it makes no difference. A culture that devalues people has the same consequences: cost, whether human, legal, PR, or otherwise. In the last weeks two significant racial discrimination cases have found their way into the news. One local – this is the AstraZeneca case , [keep reading...]

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Pregnancy – Equality Act protection

“I’m pregnant”. “Don’t bother to come back in!” This is what happened to one of our clients. Even though there has been statutory protection against dismissal on grounds of pregnancy since the 1970’s, the employer in our case appears to think that the law does not apply to them. Which, in this day of squeezed [keep reading...]