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Equality and Human Rights Commission
Promoting equality & human rights across Great Britain
- 201-500 employees
- B2B
- Legal
- Social Impact
- Westminster, London, UK
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Company mission
To defend everyone’s right to an equal chance in life.
Our take
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an organisation that promotes equality and non-discrimination laws across England, Wales and Scotland. With a history of high-profile investigations that have included racism within the British National Party, police misconduct allegations and antisemitism within the Labour Party, the EHRC presents its work directly to parliament and investigates both individual and organisational breaches of human rights.
Built from a team of lawyers and researchers, there is no denying that EHRC’s enforcement of corporate responsibility and individual human rights has produced culturally and politically relevant work. That said, it has also been scrutinized itself - for example, an internal investigation into chairwoman Kishwer Falkner's handling of transgender laws, though dropped, amounted to a decision that the case itself had been mishandled.
This has led to a risk of the EHRC being downgraded in its accreditation to the UN, due to its definitions of gender and sex. Despite this, however, the organization continues to strive for positive change, and it will be interesting to see how it responds and improves in the wake of this situation.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Contributions towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (full time FTE)
- Access to Civil Service Learning, our peer learning programme, specialist training and mentoring
- A range of family friendly benefits, such as enhanced parental leave, flexible working including non-contractual hybrid working
- Access to our wellbeing offering, including our employee assistance programme, mental health supporters, health checks and discount gym membership
- Retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and other salary sacrifice options
- In addition, we have a range of staff networks and social groups
Leadership
Cath Denholm
(CEO, not founder)Previously the Interim Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Honrary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Vice Chair at Impact Arts and Deputy Chair at NatureScot.