HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY

Sociology: Human Rights, Social Justice and Diversity

Topic: The UK has developed a range of anti-discrimination legislation, has this led to increased social mobility?

Introduction

This paper aims to cover the impact of anti discrimination legislations prevailing in the region of United Kingdom. The paper basically intends to study the impact of equality laws limited to the employment related issues in organizations. The study's main objective is to know if the anti discrimination laws do make some difference in the professional world or there is still discrimination done with employees of different races, cultures or even different gender.

This essay will help in giving guidance on the various points where the people face discrimination in the UK and how the anti discrimination laws are helping in resolving these problems. In order to understand the main motive of anti discrimination laws, it is important to know why there are ethnic or racial categories determined in the society in the first place.

The study based on the anti discrimination laws of United Kingdom is relevant and holds a lot of importance because of no legacy of strict or serious segregation or institutional racism prevailing in the society. This has basically led to the easy implementation of anti discrimination laws for the UK society as it did not face any rejection or difficult in compliance by the people, like in USA that has had years of long standing racism in the society. The case of UK thus has special relevance because of the distance it entails from the politics and the manipulation of its people.

Discussion

The United Kingdom has no such written constitution and no equality principle that holds any valid constitutional value in their law system. But UK still has a Human Rights Act and the common law equality principle that comes under anti discrimination legislations. The Employment related anti discrimination laws remain a field of law reserved to the Westminster (central) Parliament. Other fields, notably education, are devoted. When in practice anti-discrimination law remains the same throughout the United Kingdom. The British anti discrimination legislation prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, values and beliefs, age and disability/handicapped and outside employment on the grounds of race, gender and disability (Garino and Pudney, 2005, pp. 2-23).

In past research, United Kingdom shows a wide range of variation in the implications and the effects of the anti discrimination laws in the society. The British Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has its own impact on the society with various implications. Following are a few provisions that are laid out in the anti discrimination legislation for the people in the work environment:

For age discrimination legislation

The workers less than 25 years and more than 50 years and job seekers as well, have the following benefits:

Younger workers- The organizations or the businesses with the highest costs, young workers will serve d in the distribution, hotel, and catering sectors of the economy.

Old workers- The organizations or the businesses with the highest costs, old ...