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Courts will �struggle to cope� with Equality Act caseload
Employment lawyers have warned that tribunals could be �submerged� by a surge in cases stemming from the Equality Act 2010, which came into force this month.
The act comes against a backdrop of increasing employment claims, with figures released by the Tribunals Service last week indicating that employment tribunals received 44,500 claims in the first quarter of 2010/11, up 6% on the same quarter last year.
The act extends some of the protections provided by earlier legislation against associative and perceptive discrimination, harassment and victimisation at work. It also outlaws pre-employment health questionnaires and pay secrecy clauses in contracts.
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October 13, 2010
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