Since the passing of the Equality Act 2010 landlords and letting agents in the UK have been legally prohibited from discriminating against potential tenants based on the protected characteristics ...

Employers have a duty to ensure their hiring practices are free from discrimination. UK law prohibits discrimination based on certain protected characteristics such as age, disability, marriage and ...

The findings from this research suggest that the UK marketplace is discriminating against groups of people, albeit indirectly. We already know that some protected characteristics are linked to an ...

As it stands, there is nothing currently embedded in UK law to prevent class discrimination ... Introducing class as a protected characteristic within the Equality Act would provide the legal ...

For example, everyone is protected from discrimination, no matter your "characteristics." For example, race and color means if you identify as black, white, asian, latino, arab, american indian, etc, ...

North Somerset has become the latest place in the UK to give people who have been ... to treat experience in the care system as a protected characteristic. It will see the council offer the ...

Banks operating in the UK could be breaking the law in their efforts to diversify their workforces. Deutsche Bank and NatWest are currently advertising programmes ringfenced for women, but their use ...

A new cross-party committee report is calling on the government to take action to stop women leaving the workforce because of their menopause symptoms. MPs have called for menopause to become a ...

Section 11 of the B.C. Human Rights Code (the “Code”) prohibits an employer from publishing a job posting that expresses a limitation, specification, or preference as to a protected characteristic ...

WAD is now taking its campaign to parliament with the intention to make afro hair a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. The goal is to make the UK the first Western nation to ...