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Williams & Adam-Smith: Contemporary Employment Relations

Chapter 4

Social divisions and employment relations

The Department of Trade and Industry website is a key source of information on government policy and legislation concerning issues related to equality and the work-life balance. Go to the employment relations home page and follow the relevant links.
www.dti.gov.uk/er/index.htm

 The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), and the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) all have informative websites, with details of research, information, and key issues.
www.eoc.org.uk/
www.cre.gov.uk/
www.drc-gb.org/

 The UK government has established a Women and Equality Unit to work on ways of improving the position of women, including in the workplace. You can also follow a link to the work of the Women and Work Commission. The work of the independent enquiry into women’s pay that was headed by Denise Kingsmill can also be accessed online.
www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/
www.kingsmillreview.gov.uk/

 The business-led campaigns Opportunity Now and Race for Opportunity are run by the Business in the Community organization.
www.bitc.org.uk/programmes/programme_directory/opportunity_now/
www.bitc.org.uk/programmes/programme_directory/race_for_opportunity/index.html

 For further details of the campaigns run by the TGWU and GMB unions in respect of organizing black and ethnic minority workers, then go to their respective websites.
www.tgwu.org.uk/
www.gmb.org.uk/

 The Changing Times website, run by the Trades Union Congress, is a useful source of up-to-date information about flexible working and work-life balance initiatives.
www.tuc.org.uk/changingtimes/

 The Employers for Work-Life Balance campaign can be accessed through the Work Foundation’s website.
www.theworkfoundation.com/

 There are a number of bodies that campaign on issues relating to disadvantage and equality at work. Age Concern, for example, focuses on age discrimination; the Maternity Alliance campaigns for improved maternity provision; and Stonewall for better rights for lesbians, gays, and bisexuals.
www.ageconcern.org.uk/
www.maternityalliance.org.uk/
www.stonewall.org.uk/