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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS TUC: Budget forgot women  Measures that will alter the position of anyone looking for an employment discrimination claim solicitor have been described as "deeply depressing" by the TUC. The chancellor George Osborne announced in his Budget address that he will scrap dual discrimination regulations. Proposed by the last Labour government, these would allow people to make a combined claim against their employer based on two "protected characteristics", such as gender and race, under the Equality Act. It is thought that this will reduce the number of discrimination claims and cut costs for businesses. TUC general-secretary Brendan Barber said: "It is deeply depressing that the only mention of equality in [the] Budget was related to scrapping the dual discrimination regulations." He added that the Budget "forgot women and does nothing to address inequality". The raising of personal tax allowance will also be of more help to men, Mr Barber went on to say, noting that women account for more part-time and low-paid positions that are not subject to tax anyway. Jonathan Gray, head of employment at Lamport Bassitt, said: "In light of the government no longer implementing the dual discrimination element of the Equality Act, it will be necessary for those subject to discrimination on more than one protected characteristic, e.g. sex and race, to plead each separately. This is unlikely to reduce the number of discrimination claims, but instead maintain their complexity." Posted by Georgina Price 
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