‘Gender-critical’ beliefs A doctor who believed on the basis of the Bible that it is not possible to change sex/gender and was not willing to use preferred pronouns h...
Race and religion or belief Summary Race and religion have been combined on this page because they tend to be less important in an occupational health (OH) setting than...
Sexual orientation discrimination by religious fostering charity The Court of Appeal held that a fostering and adoption charity had not shown justification for requiring carers to abstain from homosexual a...
Direct discrimination under EqA Summary Direct discrimination is where, because of a protected characteristic, a person treats the claimant less favourably than the person ...
Further EU case on ‘neutrality’ and Muslim dress The European Court has again considered ‘neutrality’ as a possible reason for employers not to allow workers to wear of signs of...
‘Philosophical belief’ cases Three recent employment tribunal decisions on what is a ‘philosophical belief’ protected from discrimination by the EqA. As empl...
Indirect discrimination: justification should not focus on claimant The EAT held the tribunal wrongly focused on whether an exception for the individual was justified, in an indirect discrimination claim. The...
Sexual orientation and the EqA Protected characteristic under EqA Sexual orientation is defined in s.12(1) EqA. It means a person’s sexual orientation to persons of the sa...
Consultation response on caste discrimination The government will allow coverage of caste discrimination to develop through case law, rather than including it expressly in the Equality A...
EU cases on ‘neutrality’ and Muslim dress Two decisions of the EU Court of Justice have held it may be justified to ban visible signs of religious or other belief at work in the inte...
