UK & EU Legislation The Equality Act 2010 The Equality Act came into force in October 2010 and was set up in order to legally protect people from discrimination in the workplace and outer society. The Equality Act replaced all of the anti-discrimination laws such as Sex Discrimination Act 1975‚ Equal Pay Act 1970‚ Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 with one law covering them all. The Act protects employees from being discriminated against in the work place and mainly
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The Enabling Act was a key event that contributed to Hitler gaining power over Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Enabling Act‚ which was officially named ’Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich’‚ was the result of the Reichstag building fire which took place on 27 February 1933. The Enabling Act granted Hitler the authority to make laws without the consent of the Reichstag for four years. According to Hitler‚ the Enabling Act was needed to ‘protect from the threat of communism’ (dailykos)
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"The course of true love never did run smooth" (Act‚ 1‚ Scene 1‚ 134). The dominant theme in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love. Throughout the play‚ love is illustrated by different sorts and struggles to define the difference between fantasy and reality; although true love does triumph in the end. While there are many types of love depicted throughout the play‚ this essay will focus on the aspects of parental love‚ true love‚ and friendship love. Depicting a serious conflict
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In Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams‚ Codi Noline is a lost and directionless young woman who’s always felt like she doesn’t belong anywhere. Though when she finds out her father has Alzheimer’s‚ she decides to move back to her hometown‚ Grace‚ to take care of him‚ and is overwhelmed with the task of sorting through her past. Codi has always resented her father‚ Doc Homer‚ for raising her and her sister to be different - when that is really just his way of bringing them closer by pushing everyone
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War era‚ and increased swiftly during and following World War II‚ and has continued to be involved to the present day. The Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson is recognized as the first true landmark piece of legislation concerning the federal government’s involvement in public education. The Elementary and Secondary Act was the government’s
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Chinese Exclusion Act is one of the most momentous restriction of the certain race to enter United States. It was specifically created to prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers. This act was passed by congress and was signed by President Chester A. Arthur in the 1882. President Chester was a Baptist preacher who was born in Fairfield‚ Vermont 1829. This document however was written before the act was implemented for the ten years from 1882 which was again renewed later on in 1892. So‚ basically
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What is known as the Endangered Species Act began in mid-1960. In order for the Fish and Wildlife Service to expand their efforts to protect endangered species‚ Congress enacted the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. This Act did little more than allow a list of endangered species to be made. The Act did not prohibit the killing of endangered species or the destruction of their habitat. The lack of legal protection for the endangered species led the Fish and Wildlife
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important to note that the premise of Act 4 isn’t to provide “filler”‚ although in tragedies‚ the idea that there need to be events to tie the ‘deaths’ in ACT 3 [Polonius] and the major climatic turners [The Mouse Trap‚ Claudius praying‚ Hamlet’s encounter with Gertrude and the reappearance of the Ghost] provides a means for Act 4 to provide the mechanism of “jointure for dramatically altered events to take shape” (Frye) Additionally‚ the methodology of Act 4 is often rife with awfully “unfortunate
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1.0 INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND The Equality Act 2010 is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes provisions and sets the requirements for strategic decision makings by Ministers of the Crown and others. These provisions govern the exercise of functions of the Ministers of the Crown with regards to: • The desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities • Reforming and harmonising equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is a very important law when it comes to equal employment opportunity. This law ensures that it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against women for becoming pregnant or for anything associated with pregnancy or childbirth. If a woman is pregnant and is still able to work the job she was currently working before‚ or can effectively complete the tasks a job requires for which she may be applying‚ the employer must treat
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