• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
winrow Solicitors

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Complaints handling procedures
  • Our Team
  • Areas of Practice
    • North Wales Employment Law advice for Businesses
    • Employment advice for Employers – prices
      • Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures
      • Redundancy
      • Discrimination in the Workplace
      • Employment Tribunal Representation
      • Employment Contracts
      • Restrictive Covenants
      • Settlement Agreements
    • Civil Disputes & Litigation
    • Court Representation
    • Divorce and Family Law
      • Children Law
        • Child Arrangement
        • Parental Responsibility
        • Grandparents Rights
        • Domestic Abuse
      • Divorce Law
        • Divorce
        • Financial settlement
    • North Wales Discrimination Solicitors
      • Direct Discrimination in the workplace
      • Indirect Discrimination
      • Disability Discrimination
      • Sex Discrimination
      • Religion or Belief Discrimination
      • Race Discrimination
      • Age Discrimination
      • Harassment
      • Victimisation
    • Employment Law Solicitor
      • Unfair Dismissal and Wrongful dismissal
        • Wrongful Dismissal
        • Unfair Dismissal
          • Conduct Dismissal
          • Capability
          • Redundancy
      • Constructive Dismissal
      • Family Rights
      • Pregnancy and Maternity
      • Settlement Agreement
      • Unlawful deductions from wages
      • Employment Advice for Individuals – Prices
    • UK Immigration Solicitors
      • Nationality
      • Citizenship
      • Family Rights
      • UK Work and Study Visa’s
        • Tier 2 General Visa
        • Tier 4 Student Visa
      • Travel Visas
        • Asylum
        • Immigration advice – Prices
  • News
  • Testimonials
  • Contact Us
You are here: Home / Areas of Practice in North Wales / North Wales Discrimination Solicitors / Direct Discrimination in the workplace

Direct Discrimination in the workplace

Direct Discrimination

Direct discrimination is the legal term that applies if you treated  less favourably than someone else has been treated (or would be treated) because you belong to one of the protected groups.

You can be an employee or even a prospective employee and you need to be less favourably treated because of your  race, sex, marital status (including civil partnerships), religion, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity.

This type of discrimination tends to be obvious, for example, a female candidate with the best qualifications and experience does not get an interview, but a male candidate with fewer qualifications does.

Or, if you are already in a job, you are ignored for promotion, the job going to a less qualified male worker.

An employer cannot argue that it was not their intention to discriminate, the law only considers the end effect.
The following types of situations can occur to someone within all of the protected characteristic groups but the following examples are related to the protected characteristic of sex.

This happens when, because of your sex, someone treats you worse than someone of the opposite sex who is in a similar situation.

Sex discrimination could include:

not hiring a woman because the boss thinks she won’t fit into a traditionally male workplace

 offering women and men different rates of pay or benefits for the same job

not promoting a woman to a more senior position because it’s assumed the other staff won’t respect her authority

 dividing up work tasks based on whether staff are male or female

 insisting women wear different clothing at work to men, for example, short skirts

 not considering women for a particular role.

 

Please be very clear, sex discrimination can occur against men just as much as women.

 

Primary Sidebar

Contact Us





IMPORTANT NOTICE: The information you provide will be only used by us to administer your enquiry and any response. Use of this form does not create a solicitor-client relationship and information transmitted will not necessarily be treated as privileged or confidential. If you are a client, please get in touch with your usual firm contact directly for the most timely response.

I have read and accepted these terms

Footer

Our Services

  • Civil Disputes and Litigation
  • Court Representation
  • Divorce and Family Law
  • North Wales Discrimination Solicitors
  • Employment Law Solicitor
  • UK Immigration Solicitors

Our Advantages

  • Approachable and friendly
  • Experienced
  • Affordable fees

Sacha

 

Contact Us

  • Ddol Helyg Cwm y Glo, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 4DA Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom
  •  01286 269 226
  • 01286 872779
  • 07594461181
  • admin@winrowsolicitors.co.uk

Connect with us

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Our Location

Privacy Policy · Copyright © 2019 · Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales with registered number 649001
Created by Zaliet Logo Zaliet Law Firm Websites | Hosted by LEAP Legal Software · Login Back to Top

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy