Environmental Liability is a principle-based obligation of a polluting party to pay for any and all damage the party caused to the environment. If damage can be tied to a specific party, this is a strict liability in some countries.
Equal Opportunity means each opportunity is available to everyone equally regardless of their age, race, sex, religion, political association, ethnic origin, and any other individual or group characteristic unrelated to ability, performance, and qualification. The pinnacle principle of non-discrimination. Adamant that education, employment, and advancement possibilities, as well as benefits, and resources, must be openly…
An Equal Opportunity Employer is an employer who overt advertises to being in compliance with the principle of equal opportunity. The focus is typically hiring and promotion practices. Such an employer will not discriminate and will terminate anyone within the company that does discriminate.
Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all of the aforementioned areas.
The Equality Act 2010 gives women (and men) a right to equal pay for equal work. It replaces previous legislation on equal pay, including the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and the equality provisions in the Pensions Act 1995.
Equitable Relief applies to the assistance to a complainant seeking a just and fair remedy from the court.
Equitable Remedy is when a court awards a nonmonetary judgment, such as an order to do something (mandamus or specific performance) or refrain from doing something (injunction), when monetary damages are not sufficient to repair the injury.
An Equity Income Fund is a mutual fund whose goal is high return by income through either immediate dividend yield or projected future growth. This occurs by using most of the available investment capital to purchase common stock with these characteristics.
Equity Interest is partial or full ownership in a company by shares of stock, rather than a creditor’s interest from being owed money.