Firms across Tayside are being urged to get up to speed on new equality laws in order to avoid lawsuits in the workplace.
Employment law experts at Tayside's leading legal firm Thorntons Solicitors are holding free seminars for businesses to explain the impact of the recently passed Equality Bill on both public and private sector organisations.
The seminars – taking place at the firm's Yeaman Shore headquarters on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May – will break down the legal implications of the new legislation, thought to be one of the most radical changes in UK discrimination law since the 1970s.
Nikki Butterworth, senior solicitor at Thorntons, explained: "The Act aim to streamline existing anti-discrimination legislation into a single Act as well as strengthening existing laws, so local businesses must act to ensure they are properly prepared for these changes.
"The legislation covers issues such as positive discrimination, pay secrecy clauses, changes to the enforcement regime and the single equality duty for public sector employers and is more likely to have a greater effect on smaller organisations that may not have in-depth policies in place already.
"Our seminar will also round up recent relevant legislative changes and case law including fit notes, new paternity leave pay and rules and temporary agency worker issues."
Issued by Beattie Communications on behalf of Thorntons Solicitors.
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