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Government reforms ‘risk turning watchdog into nit-picking factory’

06/06/2011 – 9:00 am

Government plans to reform the equality watchdog risk turning it into a weak and “nit-picking compliance factory”, its chair has warned.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was responding to a Government Equalities Office (GEO) consultation on plans to slash the commission’s budget and reduce its powers, remove funding for its grants programme, and ask [...]

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Staff of equality watchdog set to strike over cuts

15/04/2011 – 9:27 am

Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) staff are set to stage a one-hour walkout over drastic cuts to the organisation’s budget, after voting in favour of strike action.
The strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU) is set to take place within the next few weeks.
The EHRC’s budget for 2010/11 appears to [...]

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