Make it clear that you are complaining about age discrimination. It can also help to suggest solutions, for example, if you want an apology or the person responsible to be retrained. Contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service for advice if you have experienced discrimination.
Get in touch. Back to top. Postcode Please enter a valid postcode Submit. The Equality Act. What is the Equality Act? How does the law protect me from age discrimination?
In what situations does the Equality Act apply? Is age discrimination ever allowed? What do I do if I have been illegally discriminated against? What do I do next? Indirect discrimination This is when a good or service has criteria which have the effect of being discriminatory against a person because of a protected characteristic like their age.
Everyone in Britain is protected. This is because the Equality Act protects people against discrimination because of the protected characteristics that we all have. Under the Equality Act, there are nine protected characteristics:. This means treating one person worse than another person because of a protected characteristic. For example, a promotion comes up at work. This can happen when an organisation puts a rule or a policy or a way of doing things in place which has a worse impact on someone with a protected characteristic than someone without one.
For example a local authority is planning to redevelop some of its housing. It decides to hold consultation events in the evening.
Many of the female residents complain that they cannot attend these meetings because of childcare responsibilities. This means people cannot treat you in a way that violates your dignity, or creates a hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
The bar staff make derogatory and offensive comments about him, which upset and offend him. This means people cannot treat you unfairly if you are taking action under the Equality Act like making a complaint of discrimination , or if you are supporting someone else who is doing so.
For example, an employee makes a complaint of sexual harassment at work and is dismissed as a consequence. The Equality Act also requires public bodies like local councils, hospitals, and publicly-funded service providers to consider how their decisions and policies affect people with different protected characteristics.
The public body also should have evidence to show how it has done this. For example , a local authority wants to improve its local bus service. Discrimination means treating you unfairly because of who you are. The Equality Act protects you from discrimination by:. There are nine protected characteristics in the Equality Act.
Discrimination which happens because of one or more of these characteristics is unlawful under the Act. We all have some of these characteristics - for example, sex or age - so the Act protects everyone from discrimination. The Act also protects you if people in your life, like family members or friends, have a protected characteristic and you're treated unfairly because of that.
This is called discrimination by association. For example, if you're discriminated against because your son is gay. The Equality Act protects you if you're treated badly because you've complained about discrimination or stood up for discrimination rights, either for yourself or for someone else. Citizens Advice and the Government Equalities Office have produced two guides to some of your rights under the Equality Act.
To download an online copy of the Equality Act What do I need to know? A summary guide to your rights , click on Equality Act What do I need to know [ kb]. To download an online copy of the Equality Act What do I need to know as a carer?
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