Business Studies - AQA - GCSE - Employment Laws and Discrimination
Equal Pay Act
1970
Male and female equal pay
Sex Discrimination Act(s)
1975 & 1986
Male and female equal treatment
Race Relations Act
1976
White people cannot
discriminate against
ethnic minorities
Disability Discrimination Act
1995
Disabled people cannot
be discriminated against
Employment Equality Regulations
2003
People cannot be
discriminated against because
of their religion or belief.
Equality Act
2010
Combines the other acts; People cannot discriminate
against others due to disabilities, religious beliefs/beliefs,
race/ethnicity, sex, age, sexual orientation, marriage/civil
partnership, pregnancy/maternity, gender identity.
Discrimination
Direct Discrimination
Treating one person less
favourably than another purely on
grounds of a sex/race/gender etc.
Indirect Discrimination
Imposing a requirement that can
be satisfied by a much smaller
proportion of the people from one
sex/one racial group/etc than from
another.
Imposing a requirement that
cannot be shown to be
justifiable by the needs of the
job.
Fair dismissal reasons
Conduct
How the
employee
does things
Bad conduct
Capability
If the employee
can handle the
tasks set for
them
Poor capability
Redundancy
The job no longer exists at
the place of employment
Statutory requirements
Legal entitlement
Because of what the law states
Robbery/murder etc.
Other reasonable issues
Constructive dismissal
The employer essentially forces the employee
to leave by making the employee's job
impossible to do (such as relocating the
employee to somewhere unreasonable).