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Equality watchdog warns junior doctors' contract is potentially illegal
The new contract ministers plan to force on NHS junior doctors discriminates against female medics and is potentially illegal, Britain’s equality watchdog has told the government.
Female doctors, including those who take time off to have children, go part-time or act as carers are at risk of earning less than male counterparts and would face “inferior conditions of work” and unfair “differential treatment”.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has detailed a number of objections to the terms and conditions as part of a wider evaluation for the UN of the government’s human rights record, a copy of which it has given to the Guardian.
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“The EHRC is concerned that the UK government’s analysis (of the equality issued raised by the contract) suggests an adverse impact of the contract on groups that disproportionately include women, such as those who take time away from work for maternity leave and caring responsibilities. This may indicate that women junior doctors will have inferior conditions of work under the new contract, which would be inconsistent with Article 7 ICESCR, unless it can be justified”, the document states.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/28/equality-watchdog-warns-junior-doctors-contract-potentially-illegal
Female doctors, including those who take time off to have children, go part-time or act as carers are at risk of earning less than male counterparts and would face “inferior conditions of work” and unfair “differential treatment”.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has detailed a number of objections to the terms and conditions as part of a wider evaluation for the UN of the government’s human rights record, a copy of which it has given to the Guardian.
...
“The EHRC is concerned that the UK government’s analysis (of the equality issued raised by the contract) suggests an adverse impact of the contract on groups that disproportionately include women, such as those who take time away from work for maternity leave and caring responsibilities. This may indicate that women junior doctors will have inferior conditions of work under the new contract, which would be inconsistent with Article 7 ICESCR, unless it can be justified”, the document states.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/28/equality-watchdog-warns-junior-doctors-contract-potentially-illegal
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