Employment Provisions
The Order applies to all employers, including sub-contractors and franchises, regardless of size.
It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate on grounds of religious belief or political opinion:
- In recruitment and selection including arrangements for deciding who should be offered employment, in the terms on which employment is offered or by refusing or deliberately omitting to offer a person employment.
- In the terms and conditions of employment.
- In relation to access to benefits, including opportunities for promotion, transfer, training or any other benefits, or the refusal of those opportunities.
- By dismissing an employee or causing him/her any other detriment.
- After the employment relationship has come to an end.
Employers are also liable for acts of discrimination committed by their employees in the course of their employment, whether or not the acts were done with the employers knowledge or approval, unless the employer can show that he took such steps as were reasonably practicable to prevent the discrimination occurring.
The Order also applies to the following bodies:
- those with statutory power to select employees for others;
- employment agencies;
- vocational organisations, including trade unions;
- training services providers; and
- those who have power to confer qualifications.
The Order also applies to contract workers, partnerships and barristers.
