It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee or job applicant because of any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010.
The nine protected characteristics are age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnership.
The EAT has ruled that an RAF sergeant can proceed with her claim for maternity discrimination after an important fitness test was cancelled because she was pregnant.Â
Site manager who lost job after suffering two strokes settles disability and age discrimination case against former employer.
Seedy Fofana succeeded in his harassment-related-to-race claim, but his claim for direct race discrimination failed.
Care worker wins race discrimination and harassment claim after colleagues excluded her by speaking foreign language during meeting.
Northern Ireland prison officer was subject to harassment by his boss in an English institution over family links to the IRA and his accent.
Former partner loses disability discrimination claim over ‘shocking and disappointing’ £10,000 bonus for year when he worked 18 days.
Number of disability discrimination cases received by Acas for early conciliation from employment tribunals increases by 40.7%.
OPM memo instructs agencies to review policies so that federal employees in the US can express their religious beliefs at work.
A complaint of maternity discrimination against Manchester-based Bright HR has been upheld by an employment tribunal after a saleswoman said that her request to return to her role after having a baby was greeted with derision.
Dan James Smith argues employers need to ensure gay people who define sexuality by sex, not gender, are not compelled to conform.
Women’s rights charity accuses select committees of being ‘openly hostile’ to preferred candidate for chair of equality watchdog.
An executive whose job was given to someone else while she was off sick with cancer has won £1.2 million in compensation at tribunal.
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Trans row nurse Sandie Peggie has been cleared of gross misconduct as her tribunal against NHS Fife resumes.
More than nine in 10 Black TV professionals have experienced prejudice or discrimination, according to research led by Aston University....
