What are the nine grounds covered in the Equality Act 2004?
It is one that respects, values and accommodates diversity across all nine grounds in the equality legislation – gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.
What are the nine grounds?
Equal Status
- ‘the gender ground’
- ‘the civil status ground’ (formerly marital status)
- ‘the family status ground’
- ‘the sexual orientation ground’
- ‘the religion ground’
- ‘the age ground’
- ‘the disability ground’
- ‘the ground of race’ (includes ‘race, colour, nationality or ethnic or national origins’)
What are the 9 characteristics of Equality Act?
Find out more about the characteristics that the Equality Act protects. These are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
What does the Equality Act prohibit?
What is the Equality Act? The Equality Act is a law which protects you from discrimination. It means that discrimination or unfair treatment on the basis of certain personal characteristics, such as age, is now against the law in almost all cases.
What are the 4 elements of unfair discrimination?
Discrimination is regarded as unfair when it imposes burdens or withholds benefits or opportunities from any person on one of the prohibited grounds listed in the Act, namely: race, gender, sex, pregnancy, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture.
What is the Equality Act 2004?
The Equality Act 2004 amends the Employment Equality Act, 1998 and enhances its anti-discrimination provisions. These acts are known together as the Employment Equality Acts 1998 and 2004 and cover the following aspects of employment: advertising, equal pay, access to employment, promotion or re-grading, dismissal, as well as other issues.
What did the Equal Status Act 2000 do?
The Equal Status Act 2000 was recently amended by the Equality Act 2004; together they are known as the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2004. Their main aim is to promote equality by forbidding discrimination in employment, vocational training, advertising, collective agreements and the provision of goods and services.
What are my rights under employment equality legislation?
Victimisation: Under employment equality legislation you are protected against victimisation if you bring a claim or are involved in a complaint of unlawful discrimination against your employer. This means that your employer may not penalise you by dismissal, unfair treatment or an unfavourable change in your conditions of employment.
What is the Equality Act and why is it bad?
The Equality Act would put parental rights to make decisions about their children’s medical treatment and education at risk. The Equality Act would ultimately lead to the erasure of women by dismantling sex-specific facilities, sports, and other female-only spaces.