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  Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 - Application of Discrimination Laws to Mariners
  
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  @ MP voted aye to apply laws against work related discrimination to mariners.
  @ MP voted no against applying laws against work related discrimination to mariners.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to extend laws against work related discrimination to those on ships (including hovercraft), and seafarers.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to apply [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/5 Part 5 (work) of the Equality Act 2010] to work on ships (including hovercraft), and seafarers.  The law offers protection from discrimination, harassment, victimisation and other unlawful conduct on the basis of protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
  
  The motion approved in this vote was:
  
  :That the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111511411/contents draft Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011], which were laid before this House on 13 May, be approved.
  
  
  
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