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Guidance for employers, business owners and organisations.
What you need to know
Guidance for businesses
This guide tells you how you can avoid all the different types of unlawful discrimination. It gives you an overview of how equality law applies to all businesses and looks at particular issues that businesses providing goods, facilities or services in different sectors may need to think about when considering what equality law requires them to do.
Practical guides
Gender pay gap reporting
If you are an employer in the private or voluntary sectors with 250 or more employees, you must…
Codes of Practice
Our Codes of Practice cover what the Equality Act 2010 means in precise and technical terms…
Last updated guidance
Public Sector Equality Duty: specific duties in Wales
This section is about the specific duties that apply to Welsh public authorities.
Specific duties in England and for non-devolved public authorities in Scotland and Wales
About the specific duties that apply in England and to non-devolved and cross-border public…
Equality Act FAQs
We answer your questions so you can better understand the Equality Act.
Marriage and civil partnership discrimination
What is marriage and civil partnership discrimination? We explain its definition, areas covered and…
Public Sector Equality Duty: specific duties in Scotland
As well as the general duty, the Public Sector Equality Duty regulations set out additional…
Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
The Universal Periodic Review is a process set up by the UN Human Rights Council in 2006 to review…
Contact Acas for further information
If you are involved in an employment dispute or are seeking information on employment rights and rules, you can contact the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas):
Freephone: 0300 123 1100 (8am to 6pm Monday to Friday)
Text Relay service: 18001 0300 123 1100.
