Discrimination at Work

Your legal employment rights provide protection to you against discrimination and harassment at work.

If your facing discrimination and harassment at work we can advise you of your legal options and help you to make your employer take action.

What is Discrimination and Harassment?

Discrimination and Harassment are covered by the Equality Act 2010 subject to the discrimination being in respect of one of the nine following protected characteristics:-

1. Age
2. Disability
3. Gender reassignment
4. Marriage and civil partnership
5. Pregnancy and maternity
6. Race
7. Religion or belief
8. Sex
9. Sexual orientation

You do not need 2 years of continuous service to raise a claim for unlawful discrimination.

There are different types of discrimination and unlawful conduct which are set out in The Equality Act 2010 and which you may be able to base a claim on that apply to most and in some cases to all of the protected characteristics. These are:-

• direct discrimination (Section 13)
• indirect discrimination (Section 19)
• harassment (Section 26)
• victimisation (Section 27)
• instructing, causing, inducing and helping discrimination (Sections 111 and 112)

Discrimination claims are complex in nature and have specific legal hurdles to jump over to succeed in a claim.  If you feel that you have been treated less favourably because, for example, of your age or because you have told your employer that you are suffering from a medical condition and it may affect your ability to carry out your normal job or because you have informed your employer that you are pregnant or in a same sex relationship and are being treated differently and what you consider unfairly compared with others, contact Susan Mayall for an initial telephone consultation to see whether you may have a claim.

We often issue claims for people who are off work either on the sick or on maternity leave whilst they are still an employee - call Susan Mayall today.