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- If you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, you can use the Equality Act to protect you against discrimination in education, work and services provided for you.
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Feb 18, 2020 · The Equality Act also protects people from discrimination arising from disability. This protects you from being treated badly because of something connected to your disability, such as having an assistance dog or needing time off for medical appointments.
- Overview
- Discrimination: Making A Complaint
- Equality Act Provisions: Commencement Dates
- Age Discrimination
- Public Sector Equality Duty
- Equalities Act 2010: Legislation
The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations. It sets out the different ways in which it’s unlawful to treat someone. Find out more about who...
Before the Act came into force there were several pieces of legislation to cover discrimination, including: 1. Sex Discrimination Act 1975 2. Race Relations Act 1976 3. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 If you wish to complain about possible unlawful treatment there are 2 separate processes, depending on when it happened.
To allow people and organisations enough time to prepare for the new laws, the provisions of the Act were brought in at different times (known as commencement dates).
The Equality Act 2010 includes provisions that ban age discrimination against adults in the provision of services and public functions. The ban came into force on 1 October 2012 and it is now unlawful to discriminate on the basis of age unless: 1. the practice is covered by an exception from the ban 2. good reason can be shown for the differential ...
The public sector Equality Dutycame into force across Great Britain on 5 April 2011.It means that public bodies have to consider all individuals when carrying out their day-to-day work – in shaping policy, in delivering services and in relation to their own employees. It also requires that public bodies have due regard to the need to: 1. eliminate ...
Equality Act 2010on the legislation.gov.uk website Explanatory noteson the legislation.gov.uk website
How you can use the Equality Act. Under the Act, disabled people should be treated equally. Protection from discrimination applies in many situations such as buying or renting property, education, employment, exercise of public functions, goods, services, facilities and transport.
Aug 3, 2024 · The introduction of ‘discrimination arising from disability’ under s.15 Equality Act 2010 (and also indirect discrimination under s.19) aims to shift the position back to a more balanced approach, giving disabled people wider rights, but subject to an employer etc being able to ‘justify’ its conduct.
- Direct discrimination. Direct discrimination is when you are treated worse than someone else because you have a disability. You have to show that there's a link between your disability and the way you've been treated.
- Discrimination arising from disability. This is where you are treated badly because of something that happens due to your disability. Unlike direct discrimination, there's no need for you to compare yourself with anyone else.
- Indirect discrimination. Indirect discrimination is where a person or organisation has practices or arrangements that seem to treat everyone in an equal, non-discriminatory way.
- Harassment. Harassment is behaviour from others that you don't want, that: Violates your dignity or creates an environment that is intimidating, degrading, offensive or humiliating.
Equality Act 2010. relating to the definition of disability. Contents. Status and purpose of the guidance. Part 1: Introduction. Using the guidance Other references to ‘disability’. Part 2:...
The Equality Act will replace the Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005 (DDA). The changes include new provisions on direct discrimination, discrimination arising from...
