Unlocking Employment Law

14Protection from discrimination (5) recent developments in discrimination law

Aims and Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• ■ Understand the background to discrimination in employment and its limitations prior to the Equality Act 2010
• ■ Understand the protected characteristics of sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion and belief, and age
• ■ Understand the different types of discrimination identified as prohibited conduct in the 2010 Act and how they apply
• ■ Understand how an occupational requirement might apply in each case
• ■ Understand the protections available to part-time employees, employees on fixed-term contracts and agency workers
• ■ Critically analyse the area
• ■ Apply the law to factual situations and ...