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Given this history, the existence of the employer's defence in the discrimination legislation, embracing harassment as it now does pursuant to the requirements of the directives, and the absence of such a defence from the (earlier) 1997 Act, does not assist materially in the interpretation of the 1997 Act. The discrimination legislation, as it ...
United Kingdom employment equality law is a body of law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace. As an integral part of UK labour law it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because they have one of the "protected characteristics", which are, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy and ...
An Act to make provision for protecting persons from harassment and similar conduct. Citation: 1997 c. 40: Territorial extent England, Wales, Scotland except that Section 13 extends to Northern Ireland: Dates; Royal assent: 21 March 1997: Commencement: Except for sections 1 to 12, the Act came into force on 21 March 1997. [2]
Under this Act, it is now an offence for a person to pursue a course of action which amounts to harassment of another individual, and that they know or ought to know amounts to harassment. Under this act the definition of harassment is behaviour which causes alarm or distress. This Act provides for a jail sentence of up to six months or a fine.
The Act clarifies existing legislation and simplifies the definition of direct discrimination, extends the definitions of indirect discrimination and harassment, regulates pay secrecy clauses in employment contracts and the use of health questionnaires by employers. [325] It gives employment tribunals new powers to make recommendations to ...
Direct discrimination is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010, and means treating a person less favourably than a comparable person, because of a "protected characteristic", such as sex, race, sexual orientation, disability or age. [389] The employer's motives are irrelevant, even if it meant to help underprivileged groups. [390]
Discrimination: Where an employee has grounds to believe that he or she has been discriminated against in being dismissed, the Equality Act 2010 may apply. (The Equality Act 2010 is a consolidating reform which repeals and replaces the Race Relations Act 1976 , the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 , the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex ...
The Equality Act 2010 [1] (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England ...