Your Rights to Fly:What You Need to Know (A step-by-step guide for disabled and less mobile air
passengers)
The equality and Human Rights Commission have published a guide that aims to provide an overview of the rights of disabled and
less mobiles air passengers and explain what they can do to ensure that their
journey runs smoothly from start to finish.
This guide is designed for disabled and less mobile air passengers.
In summary, this guide offers advice for air passengers
- When arranging and preparing for a flight
- When arriving at an airport and checking in
- When moving through an airport
- When boarding a flight, whilst onboard and when leaving the plane.
- Details on where to find further information and useful contacts
This guide was first published in 2008. It was revised in 2011 and again in July
2014.
New same sex marriage guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published
new guidance on marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales, following
the Parliamentary approval of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 in July
2013.
The guidance will help public authorities, employers, service
providers, schools and religious institutions understand their rights and
responsibilities in a simple and clear way and help them avoid falling foul of
the new legislation.
The Commission has also produced a quick guide on the Act to
explain the key impacts of the legislation.
To read the guidance, please visit the EHRC's website.
Avoiding discrimination while preventing illegal working
The Government has published its statutory Code of practice for employers on avoiding unlawful discrimination while preventing illegal working. The Code of practice provides practical guidance on how to avoid illegal discrimination when carrying out right to work checks on employees.
Although the statutory Code does not of itself impose any legal obligations on employers, an employment tribunal may take the Code into account when determining whether there was discrimination when an employer carried out prevention of illegal working checks.
The key point in the Code is that employers should have in place and follow clear recruitment practices which treat all applicants fairly and in the same way at each stage of the recruitment process. It states that provided that all applicants are asked, the employer can ask for appropriate documentation to carry out its checks.
The Code is available on the Government website.
Although the statutory Code does not of itself impose any legal obligations on employers, an employment tribunal may take the Code into account when determining whether there was discrimination when an employer carried out prevention of illegal working checks.
The key point in the Code is that employers should have in place and follow clear recruitment practices which treat all applicants fairly and in the same way at each stage of the recruitment process. It states that provided that all applicants are asked, the employer can ask for appropriate documentation to carry out its checks.
The Code is available on the Government website.
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