The CRE's legal powers
The CRE has statutory powers under the Race Relations Act 1976. These include powers to:
- Advise or assist people with complaints about racial discrimination, harassment or abuse.
- Assistance from the CRE
- Conduct formal investigations of companies and organisations where there is evidence of possible discrimination; if the investigation does find discrimination, the CRE can oblige the organisation to change the way it operates.
- Formal investigations
- Take legal action against racially discriminatory advertisements, and against organisations that attempt to pressurise or instruct others to discriminate — such as employers instructing employment agencies not to send them applicants from ethnic minorities, or companies instructing their workers to discriminate in the way they provide goods or services.
- Job advertisements: guiding principles
- Assist individuals to take judicial review action in order to challenge decisions made by public bodies, including their compliance to the general duty to promote race equality.
- The race equality duty
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