The Department covers women’s equality, equal pay, race equality, disabled workers’ equality, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, and equality on the basis of religion and age; the Department also leads on employment rights, both individual and collective.
Before becoming Head of Equality and Employment Rights, Sarah was Senior Employment Rights Officer, in which role she was responsible for the development of TUC policy on employment law. She co-ordinated TUC activities in relation to the introduction of the Employment Relations Act 1999 and wrote the TUC Guide to the Act. She was also responsible for various TUC submissions to the Government, and was a member of the TUC team which negotiated the recent national agreement with the CBI and the Government on temporary agency work. She regularly briefs senior union officers on developments in employment and equality law. She is co-author of “Your Rights at Work”, the TUC’s book on employment rights.
Sarah is a member of the ACAS Council, the Government’s Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, the Women’s National Commission and the Employment Tribunals System Steering Board. She was awarded the CBE for services to diversity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2006.
Sarah’s interests include her family, music, reading and politics.