Discrimination
Discrimination takes place when an individual or a group of people is a treated less favourably than others based on one of the nine protected characteristics in the Equality Act (2010). These characteristics are:
- age;
- disability;
- gender reassignment;
- marriage and civil partnership;
- pregnancy and maternity;
- race;
- religion or belief (or no belief);
- sex;
- sexual orientation.
You can experience direct or indirect discrimination and discrimination by association and perception. You can read in more detail about discrimination in the Dignity and Respect Policy. Dignity and Respect Policy.