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Text of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (1998 No. 3162 (N.I. 12)) is an order in Council for Northern Ireland consolidating and strengthening legislation regarding ...
Prohibited discrimination at work on a number of grounds including sexual orientation. The act covered aspects such as terms and conditions in employment contracts; promotion and demotion; harassment at work; indirect discrimination; pay and work conditions; membership of unions and professional bodies; and participating in training courses.
The Referendum on the Thirty Sixth Amendment, asked Irish citizens to change the law's focus on,"the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother," to become, "Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancy." [19] 3,367,556 Irish citizens participated in the referendum ...
The joint call has been led by Geraldine McGahey, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland age discrimination laws ‘must be urgently strengthened ...
Irish Travellers are an ethnic and cultural minority group who have lived in Ireland for centuries and experience overt discrimination throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] In nature, such discrimination is similar to antiziganism (prejudice against the Roma ) [ 85 ] in the United Kingdom and Europe, [ 84 ] as well as ...
Since 1999, a number of new pieces of legislation have been introduced. The commission is now responsible for promoting awareness of and enforcing anti-discrimination law on the following grounds: age, disability, race, sex (including marital and civil partner status), sexual orientation, religious belief and political opinion.
The hearing was suspended temporarily when the Attorney General for Northern Ireland requested the case be referred to the Supreme Court due to a conflict between European human rights law and Northern Irish equality law. [9] The Court of Appeal denied the request. [2] The Court upheld the original verdict on the grounds of direct ...
Protests at several locations in Ireland started in early November 2022 after the development of sites in various parts of the country as temporary asylum seeker shelters by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), as it attempted to accommodate the influx of 65,000 refugees during 2022. [1]