The POA is looking for delegates to attend the following TUC Equality Conferences 2024.
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CIRC 089: TUC EQUALITY CONFERENCES – 2024
The POA is looking for delegates to attend the following TUC Equality Conferences 2024.
Angela Montgomery, Assistant General Secretary reports on the LGBT+ Conference
The Conference opened with Maria Exall the first out LGBT+ President of the TUC welcoming all delegates telling them that she wanted the Conference to have an “atmosphere of learning”.
TUC DISABLED WORKERS CONFERENCE 2023
Geoff Willetts, NEC reports on the TUC Disabled Workers Conference
The POA are proud to be affiliated with Maternity Action. Maternity Action is the UK’s maternity rights charity dedicated to promoting, protecting and enhancing the rights of all pregnant women, new mothers and their families to employment, social security and health care.
Each year maternity discrimination costs women £112 million in lost wages and maternity pay. 75% of working women have suffered negative experiences due to being pregnant or taking maternity leave. Helping pregnant women, new parents, trade unions and advisors with this complex and complicated area of the law is at the heart of what Maternity Action do..
To find out more click here to access the Maternity Action website.
We’d like to remind people of the PiPP recognition scheme, which is a way of recognising the work of those advancing LGBTI+ inclusion and/or PiPP aims within HMPPS. Below are details of the recognition scheme, along with this years role models & allies pack profiling LGBTI+ role models & allies in service.
HMPPS is hoping to achieve the recruitment of local leads at every establishment across the country. Anyone can apply to be a PiPP local lead including allies, as long as someone is passionate about LGBTI+ equality there are no barriers.
To view the HMPPS LGBTI+ role models & allies pack click here to access the file in the Members area
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Definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010
You're disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a 'substantial' and 'long-term' negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.
“Our employer normally considers substantial and long term as having lasted or likely to last for more than 12 months