Discrimination is the concept that someone has been treated “less favourably” than others as a result of a particular characteristic that they possess. With minor exceptions, treating someone less favourably is unlawful where that characteristic is, for example, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation or religion […]
Another legal term for the worker, used in the questionnaire procedure under the anti-discrimination legislation. Sometimes it is used to refer to the Claimant in a discrimination case.
Renamed “settlement agreement” on 29 July 2013, this is a written agreement by which an employee gives up his or her entitlement to bring an employment claim or claims. The employer who is the other party generally agrees to make some form of financial payment, often provides an agreed form of reference, and may provide […]