March 16, 2020

The Committee for Employment & Social Security have submitted its policy letter on proposals for a new discrimination ordinance to cover discrimination on the grounds of disability, carer status and race in the first phase and to expand the protected grounds in two subsequent phases.

The Committee is today publishing a summary of the proposals and an easy read version. These documents and the media release are attached to this email for your information. The full policy letter is available at  https://gov.gg/article/176559/Proposals-for-a-New-Discrimination-Ordinance

Please feel free to disseminate this information as you feel is appropriate to anyone in your organisation or, if applicable, to your members, clients, service users or stakeholders.

If you have any questions on the proposals, please email these to equality@gov.gg and we will do our best to answer them.

Kind regards

The Equality and Discrimination Policy Team

The Office of the Committee for Employment & Social Security

More information can be found on the new States webpage Discrimination Legislation 

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