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Stonewall Guides to Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations

To help employers and employees to understand the laws, Stonewall has produced two guides for employers and employees, along with some answers to frequently asked questions about the legislation changes.

On this page:

• Employers' Guidelines
• Employees' Briefing
• Frequently asked questions - FAQs

Employers' Guidelines

Stonewall has produced these guidelines to offer practical help and advice to employers on how to both comply with and get the best from the new laws. It gives a detailed outline of the legislation and what it means in practice.

The guidelines also include practical advice on overcoming the barriers to establishing a truly inclusive workplace. We offer eight steps to making sexual orientation an everyday diversity issue alongside gender, race and disability. These practical steps are a critical part of informing, consulting and communicating the new laws to staff and line managers and persuading them to take an active part in creating an inclusive culture at work.

All the advice is based on methods already used by members of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, ranging from BT, Barclays plc, Royal Bank of Scotland and JP Morgan in the private sector to the Inland Revenue, Home Office and Birmingham City Council in the public sector.

Please click on a link below for your free copy:

• Sexual Orientation Employer Handbook - English

Employees' Briefing

Discrimination at Work?
It’s so over.

This plain language guide for employees gives a brief outline of the new employment regulations, what they cover and what you can do to take action against harassment and discrimination.

Please click on a link below for your free copy in the following languages:

• Bengali
• English
• French
• Gujarati
• Italian
• Polish
• Portugese
• Punjabi
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Welsh

Frequently asked questions - FAQs

Find out all you need to know about the new employment legislation so you can answer all those difficult questions. Click here for employee FAQs and here for employer FAQs.

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