What can’t a prospective employer ask at an interview? Potential employers should be cautious around subjects like age, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation. There are a number of potentially risky interview topics, mostly around areas such as health, family/personal matters, and so on. This is because discrimination law applies to [...]

What is Age Discrimination? Age discrimination is protected against both for current employees, and also job applicants. Age discrimination is where you are treated unfairly at work because of your age.  It can happen where you are younger or older than the person treating you unfairly. It can happen where decisions [...]

What is Disability Discrimination? The Equality Act sets out the law around disability discrimination. Disability discrimination is where you are treated less favourably because of a disability, or because of something arising from a disability.  Harassment because of disability is another type of disability discrimination, as is a failure to make [...]

What is Religion or Belief Discrimination? The law requires employers to not discriminate because of religious beliefs. Under the Equality Act, you are protected against discrimination because you hold, or because you don’t hold, a particular religion or philosophical belief.  It’s fairly straightforward to identify a religion, but it’s harder to [...]

What is discrimination in the workplace? Discrimination at work is where you are treated unfairly in relation to a ‘protected characteristic’. Discrimination at work happens when you are treated unfairly at work because of your:- age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race religion or belief sex [...]