There are different forms of discrimination which can take place in a workplace as to Harrods such as: direct, indirect, victimisation and harassment. Direct discrimination occurs when someone is treated less favourable for a reason direct to do with his or her sex, marital status that is being married, race racial origin, etc. Examples of this would be to refuse a woman job as a truck driver simply because she is a woman and refuse a Chinese person a job in a school kitchen simply because all the other employees are white European and the employer fears that a person from a different racial background will not fit in.
Indirect discrimination occurs when someone is treated less unfairly because of some requirement or condition that would disproportionately exclude the particular group that person belongs to, and the requirement cannot be objectively justified. For example if you wished to hire someone to clean the windows in your building, and you stipulated that applicants must be six feet tall, could this …show more content…
As the IRS (2003) point out, this terminology broadens the sphere of potential indirect discrimination to include informal practices,
Victimisation occurs when someone is treated less favourable because that person has made a complaint about sex or race discrimination. An example of this might be a woman who has complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about lack of promotion in comparison to similarity to qualified men and who is subsequently dismissed unfairly.
The legislation also stipulates that this unfair treatment must be to the disadvantage of the person so treated. In the case of employment, this includes the person being refused employment, promotion or training opportunities or being
Indirect discrimination occurs when someone is treated less unfairly because of some requirement or condition that would disproportionately exclude the particular group that person belongs to, and the requirement cannot be objectively justified. For example if you wished to hire someone to clean the windows in your building, and you stipulated that applicants must be six feet tall, could this …show more content…
As the IRS (2003) point out, this terminology broadens the sphere of potential indirect discrimination to include informal practices,
Victimisation occurs when someone is treated less favourable because that person has made a complaint about sex or race discrimination. An example of this might be a woman who has complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about lack of promotion in comparison to similarity to qualified men and who is subsequently dismissed unfairly.
The legislation also stipulates that this unfair treatment must be to the disadvantage of the person so treated. In the case of employment, this includes the person being refused employment, promotion or training opportunities or being