Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights Department
Sarah Veale is Head of the Equality and Employment Rights Department at the TUC, where she has worked since 1985. 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; it also leads on individual and collective employment rights.
Before this, Sarah was Senior Employment Rights Officer, responsible for the development of TUC policy on employment law. She co–ordinated TUC activities related 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 that negotiated the recent national agreement on temporary agency workers with the CBI and the Government. 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.
