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Discrimination is illegal. Discrimination against a person on the grounds of their sex, their ethnic
origin, their race or marital status, disability, their trade union membership, and (since 1 October
2006 ) their age, is wrong.

What is discrimination? It comes in three different varieties:-

 

 

 
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Direct
Direct discrimination is giving less favorable treatment
to anyone for the reasons set out above
Indirect
The employer imposes a condition or requirement of
the employee which he (or she of course) cannot carry out to his/her detriment because of their sex or race
Victimisation
Victimisation occurs when an employee is giving less favorable treatment after complaining about discrimination or giving evidence of it on behalf
of someone else
 


Discrimination is, of course, illegal during recruitment procedures.

The employer guilty of discrimination has to pay compensation. The compensation is based
on losses (actual and future) and injury to feelings.

The upper limit? There is none. The worker who has been discriminated against is entitled
to limitless compensation. Employers therefore need to check that they have anti-
discrimination procedures in place, and that those procedures are enforced !