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 Social Mobility Commission's recommendations include making discrimination based on socio-economic background unlawful.
Lawyers warn over risk of discrimination against home workers; affluent suburbs have highest proportion working at home, ONS finds.
Why we should use the return to the workplace as an opportunity to implement radical change and get to grips to poor decision-making.
Women earn on average £10,400 less than men and £44 less in freelance day rates in the creative sector, according to a newly published study.
Man who was sacked following terse emails has received a pay out for unfair dismissal, unfavourable treatment and disability-related harassment.
Bullying and biased leadership structures are preventing black and ethnic minority judges from reaching the top jobs claim a group of judges.
Shortlists for senior Church of England roles must include at least one ethnic minority candidate, a CoE taskforce has proposed.
BBC Panorama programme told that some church members had been offered compensation after making complaints of racism as long as they signed an NDA.
A union said that some of the National Childbirth Trust's practitioners were being “bullied” by the trust’s quality assurance procedures.
A woman who was subjected to sexual comments has won her claim for sex discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal.
A tribunal has found Barclays had failed to make reasonable adjustments for a banker who had Crohn's disease.
Menopausal women are the fastest growing demographic in the workplace, yet many struggle to manage the psychological and physiological changes...
By failing to recognise how the lived experiences of people with common characteristics can differ, organisations will undermine well-intentioned efforts to improve inclusion.
A firefighter who called a short gay colleague ‘half a man’ has been awarded more than £12,000 because of the way his employer dismissed him.
A Muslim engineer has been awarded £3,500 after his colleagues falsely accused him of having extremist Islamic views.
