Equal Opportunities Links
Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
www.equalityhumanrights.com
This organisation gives advice and guidance on rights,
responsibilities and good practice, based on equality law and human
rights.
Helplines:
England - 0845 604 6610
Scotland - 0845 604 5510
Wales - 0845 604 8810
Guidance on Employment Rights
www..direct.gov.uk -
Department of Trade and Industry site giving guidance and
information on UK employment law. Sections on employment relations,
National Mimimum Wage and maternity rights.
Community Legal Service
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/UsefulContactsByCategory/Governmentcitizensandrightscontacts/DG_195356
- Legal help and information in England and Wales
Law Centres
www.lawcentres.org.uk - Provides a free and independent legal advice on childcare and flexible working.
Labour Research Department
LRD's work-life booklet is available here www.lrd.org.uk/issue.php3?pagid=5&issueid=498
.
An article on work-life balance appeared in Labour Research,
Nov.01, is available here www.lrd.org.uk/issue.php3?pagid=4&issueid=504.
78 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8HF Tel: 020 7928 3649 info@lrd.org.uk
www.lrd.org.uk
Employers for Work-Life Balance is an alliance
of 22 leading companies committed to working to promote good
practice in work-life balance. They can be contacted at: Celcon
House, 289-293 High Holborn, London WC1V 7HU
www.employersforwork-lifebalance.org.uk
New Ways to Work is an independent educational charity which has promoted job sharing and other flexible working arrangements since 1980. They can be contacted at: Level 4, 26 Shackwell Lane, London E8 2EZ Tel: 020 7503 3283 Information/Advice line: 020 7503 3578 info@new-ways.co.uk www.new-ways.co.uk
The Work Foundation Information and resources
about work-life balance.
Peter Runge House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG Tel:
0870 1656700
www.theworkfoundation.com/index.jsp
Carers National Association (CNA)
Information and support for carers. 20-25 Glasshouse Yard, London
EC1A 4JS
Tel: 020 7490 8818 CarersLine: 0808 808 7777 www.cna.org.uk
Working Families
Parents and Carers Helpline - 0300 012 0312 For advice on
rights at work. Visit Working Families for more
information.
DayCare Trust Information and advice on childcare. 21 St Georges Road, London SE1 6ES Tel: 020 7840 3350 info@daycaretrust.org.uk www.daycaretrust.org.uk
Kids Club Network Information and advice on
school aged childcare.
Bellerive House, 3 Muirfield Crescent, London E14 9SZ Tel: 020 7512
2100
www.kidsclubs.com
Maternity Alliance 45 Beech Street, London EC2P
2LX Tel: 020 7588 8582
www.maternityalliance.org.uk
Women Returners Network (WRN)
Helps women returners to access work or training. Their website
provides details of relevant college courses in UK. They also
advise employers and colleges on family friendly policies.
Chelmsford College, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 0JQ Tel:
01245 263796 Fax: 01245 491712 wrn@grow.org.uk www.womenreturners.co.uk
Flametree
Information and advice, including case studies on flexible working.
6 Wrights Lane, London W8 6T Tel: 020 7376 0618 www.flametree.co.uk
Homeworking.com
Information and advice about working from home, including case
studies and jobs.
c/o Knowledge Computing 9 Ashdown Drive, Borehamwood, Herts WD6 4LZ
info@homeworking.com
www.homeworking.com
National Group on Homeworking
Campaigning group on homeworking issues. Office 26, 30-38 Dock
Street, Leeds LS10 1JF Tel: 0113 245 4273 www.gn.apc.org/homeworking
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Central Government Beacon Scheme
www.cgbs.org.uk/cgbs_db_search/beacon_details.asp?HstCde=HE
Work+Life Strategies
Work+Life Strategies in Australia is a global management
consultancy on creating and sustaining flexibility and diversity
issues for men and women. They have a regular e-newsletter that you
can sign up to for regular bulletins on diversity and flexibility
at work.
126 Evans Street (PO Box 681), Rozelle 2039, Sydney, Australia
www.workpluslifestrategies.com
Enterprise-village
Working closely with employers, Enterprise-village is developing
sustainable ways for office staff to give up commuting without
working from home or changing employer.
www.enterprise-village.com
Hazards Magazine: 'Get a Life!'
Union tools to ensure your job doesn't take over your life
www.hazards.org/getalife
For training videos on work-life balance which have discounts for trade unions, visit www.angelproductions.co.uk or email admin@angelproductions.co.uk. Please note that the TUC and the Industrial Society have made a joint video on work-life balance. See above for details (special trade union rates available).
Disability Advice Centre (DAC)
This site is provided by Royal Mail who provide the following
introduction:
'The Disability Advice Centre has been established since 1993
to provide help and advice on disability-related issues to all
employees. We are now acknowledged as being in the forefront of
disability advice and this website is the next step in sharing
disability information with as large a number of people as possible
and in as wide a variety of formats as possible. I do hope you
enjoy the site.' Allan Leighton, Chairman,
Royal Mail, 2003. Web address: www.royalmailgroup.com/DAC/about.html
Email - DAC@royalmail.com
If you require any of the information in an alternative format,
please contact:
Telephone: 01252 528 509
Textphone: - 01252 528 713
Fax - 01252 528 382"
It provides extensive factsheets on a multitude of disability
related topics and as such can be of use to anybody trying to
discover information about disability issues. It is of course of
particular use to our members in Royal Mail, and particularly when
a manager needs to be given something official as all their
downloadable fact sheets carry an official mark.
GOVERNMENT
Your local Job Centre will have a Disability Advisor whose job it
is to advise on disability employment and equipment to assist with
employment. If your local management are claiming problems in
getting equipment for your members with a disability, then check
they have spoken to the local Job Centre Advisor.
The Government also has a web site, which is very useful on
http://www.open.gov.uk/. It Includes
all legislation since 1996 and the Disability Discrimination Act,
Benefits Agency, The Inland Revenue, the Disability Task Force and
much, much more.
www.hmso.gov.uk/ will take
you directly to the Stationery Office site for legislation, which
you can read on line or download. The direct address for the
Department of Trade and Industry is www.dti.gov.uk/
TUC
The TUC publishes a number of useful publications. Sometimes these
are notified to or reproduced in the Briefing, but the TUC also
publishes books and educational material. The TUC have an Equality
Department, and in parallel with the relevant Conferences, they
have a Women's Committee, a Race Equality Committee and a
Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee.
Their address is:
Trades Union Congress
Congress House
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS
Telephone: 020 7636 4030
Fax: 020 7636 0632
www.tuc.org.uk/ including
on-line reports of Congress and advice, leaflets plus some other
good stuff.
TRADES COUNCILS
There may be a Trades Council to cover your area, which is in
effect the local organisation of the TUC. It is virtually certain
that the Trades Council will have a Women's Committee and
likely that they will have a Committee to deal with race issues.
Effective Trades Councils can be very useful for collective action
on issues in a locality and as sources of information and contacts
with local organisations working in the equality field. It is
useful for your Branch to affiliate, even if the Branch cannot
fully participate, simply in order to get their mailing.
LABOUR RESEARCH DEPARTMENT:
The Labour Research Department publishes a number of different
types of pamphlets from their monthly and weekly reports on a whole
range of issues of concern to workers, to their Bargaining Reports,
which often include equality issues. In addition, they publish
booklets on a whole range of issues, including all the equality
Issues. Many Branches are affiliated or subscribe to the LRD and
affiliation will not cost a great deal of money.
Their address is:
LRD Publications Ltd
78 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8HF
Telephone: 020 7928 3649
www.lrd.org.uk/
If any of your members or their families have problems with the Immigration Service then you should contact HQ for advice or information on who to put them in contact with.
However the JCWI is a very good campaigning organisation on the
issues involved with immigration and do publish a newsletter which
would keep you in touch with current events.
Their address is:
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
115 Old Street
LONDON EC1V 9JR
Telephone: 020 7251 8706
ILO GENDER PROMOTION PROGRAMME (GENPROM)
GENPROM is pleased to announce the launch of a new website and
CD (in English) on gender equality in employment, entitled
e.quality@work: An Information Base on Equal Employment
Opportunities for Women and Men.
The following eight main sections of the website cover laws,
initiatives, strategies, projects and programmes on equal
employment opportunities for women and men:
· ILO and UN Instruments
· International Guidelines
· European Union (EU) Instruments
· National Legal Frameworks
· National Guidelines
· Government Programmes
· Company Policies
· Trade Union Policies
www.ilo.org/genprom/eeo
LESBIAN AND GAY EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS (LAGER):
LAGER provides support and advice for lesbians and gays in respect
of employment.
Unit 1G Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London N1 3QP Telephone and
Minicom: 020 7704 8066(Lesbians), 020 7704 6066(Gay Men) Fax: 020
7704 6067 www.lager.dircon.co.uk/
INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS
Institute of Race Relations,
2-6 Leeke Street,
King's Cross Road,
London WC1X 9HS.
Telephone: 020 7833 2010 or 020 7837 0041
Fax: 020 7278 0623
E-Mail: info@homebeats.co.uk
ACTION ON HEARING LOSS
www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk
19-23 Featherstone Street
London
EC1Y 8SL
Helpline: 0808 808 0123 (freephone)
Textphone: 0808 808 9000 (freephone)
ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND:
The RNIB's remit also covers partially sighted and they can
give advice on benefits, equipment, employment and support.
Helpline: 0303 123 9999
THE DISABILITY ALLIANCE:
The main publication is the annual Disability Rights Handbook,
which costs £11 for the 1998-9 edition. It contains advice,
the addresses of most useful organisations in the field and is an
indispensable source of information.
Their address is: Disability Alliance ERA, Universal House, 88-94
Wentworth Street
London E1 7SA Telephone(Minicomm available): 020 7247 8776 Fax: 020
7247 8765
Rights Advice Line: 020 7247 8673 (Minicomm Available)
We carry a copy of this at HQ together with a summary on the detail of disabling illnesses and conditions. You should telephone 020 8971 7205 if you need advice or an extract from it.
PRESS FOR CHANGE (the pressure group for transsexuals) do not have a phone number but they do have one of the most user friendly web sites. The site also contains a downloadable version of the Sex Discrimination Act. The site address is www.pfc.org.uk/
HARASSMENT:
We provide most of the information needed to deal with harassment
cases in the businesses. If you do not have a copy of the
instructions and procedures in the businesses you operate within
then contact the Equal Opportunities Department. Members can also
ring the "Harassment Line" at CWU HQ on 020 8971 7205 if
they have a particular need.
OTHER INFORMATION SOURCES:
Citizens Advice Bureaux in your area will have leaflets, advice and
Advice Workers. A number of areas have Women's Aid or Rape
Crisis Centres and if you want further assistance with a
member's problem, we may be able to advise or point you in the
right direction. In some areas there are Racial Equality Councils
who provide Advice Workers, legal advice and assistance. They are
not officially local arms of the CRE but independent organisations.
It is often worth making contact with them so they know they can
talk to you and vice versa if either of you needs to resolve
misunderstandings and problems.
WOMENS AID:
National Domestic Violence Helpline; 08457 023 468
Address PO Box 391 Bristol BS99 7WS England
Telephone number (administration) 0117 944 4411
Telephone number (training team) 0117 942 1396
Fax 0117 924 1703
E mail wafe@wafe.co.uk
www.womensaid.org.uk/
OTHER USEFUL EQUALITY WEB SITES
European Commission:
http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
Employment Appeals Tribunal
www.employmentappeals.gov.uk/
Stonewall Lesbian and Gay:
www.stonewall.org.uk
Equality Commission in Northern Ireland
www.equalityni.org/
CWU Disability and Special Needs Advisory
http://i.am/dsnac/
CWU Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee
Department
European Anti-racism:
www.icare.to/
Information giving advice on computing and disability:
AbilityNet
www.abilitynet.org.uk
General Enquiries:
Tel: 0800 269545 (if you call from home)
or 01926 312847 (if you call from work).
Fax: 01926 407425
Email: enquiries@abilitynet.org.uk
