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1184303

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	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what assessment he has made for the implications of her policies of Paragraph 9(1) of Resolution 2318 (2020) of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on the establishment of appropriate monitoring mechanisms to assess the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation.
	tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson
	uin	27954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>Resolution 2318 concerns the protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace. Domestic anti-discrimination provisions covering religion or belief are contained in the Equality Act 2010. Anyone who feels that they have suffered discrimination because of religion or belief can contact either ACAS, for issues related to the workplace, or the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) for non-employment matters. Both services provide free advice to members of the public.</p><p>ACAS and the EASS refer appropriate cases to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which is the country’s national equality and enforcement body.</p><p>Both the EHRC and ACAS have published guidance for employers and employees about religion or belief and the workplace.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 18/03/2020 18:10:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

1184304

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Employment: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of paragraph 9(4) of resolution 2318 (2020) of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on the provision of training and advice to public and private employers.
	tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson
	uin	27955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>Resolution 2318 concerns the protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace. Both the Equality and Human Rights Commission and ACAS have published guidance for employers and employees about this matter.</p><p>Additionally, ACAS offers online training for employers on religion or belief in the workplace.</p><p>The guidance and the online training are available at: <a href="https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/religion-or-belief-workplace" target="_blank">https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/religion-or-belief-workplace</a> ; and <a href="https://elearning.acas.org.uk/login/index.php" target="_blank">https://elearning.acas.org.uk/login/index.php</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 18/03/2020 18:09:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson