Equal Opportunities International: Volume 26 Issue 6

Equal employment opportunity legislation and policies: the Australian experience

Glenda Strachan, John Burgess, Lindy Henderson

Organisations have to respond to a range of legislative and policy initiatives intended to promote equal employment opportunity for women. The purpose of this paper is to analyse…

Rediscovering the collective application of the Equal Pay Act

David Rowbottom

The purpose of this article is to examine the proposal adopted by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) that employers undertaking an equal pay review should be permitted a…

Can training remove the glue from the “sticky floor” of low‐paid work for women?

Helen Rainbird

The UK government has suggested that women's inequality can be addressed through improved education and training. The aim of this paper is to explore the extent to which this is…

Young workers and the National Minimum Wage

Rosemary Lucas, Shobana Nair Keegan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the basis of the Low Pay Commission's (LPC) presumption of the “distinctiveness” of young workers aged 16 and 17 in the absence of any…

Equality and diversity policies and practices at work: lesbian, gay and bisexual workers

Fiona Colgan, Chris Creegan, Aidan McKearney, Tessa Wright

The purpose of this paper is to identify organisational good practice concerning equality, diversity and sexual orientation and consider the impact of the Employment Equality…

Disabled people's experiences in the workplace environment in England

Rita Newton, Marcus Ormerod, Pam Thomas

The aim of this paper is to report on a study undertaken into disabled people's experience of the built environment when attempting to access and stay in employment.

Equality and inequality in work and employment

Hazel Conley