Business Studies - AQA - GCSE - Employment Laws and Discrimination

Business Studies - AQA - GCSE - Employment Laws and Discrimination

1. Equal Pay Act

   • 1970
   • Male and female equal pay

2. Sex Discrimination Act(s)

   • 1975 & 1986
   • Male and female equal treatment

3. Race Relations Act

   • 1976
   • White people cannot discriminate against ethnic minorities

4. Disability Discrimination Act

   • 1995
   • Disabled people cannot be discriminated against

5. Employment Equality Regulations

   • 2003
   • People cannot be discriminated against because of their religion or belief.

6. 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.

7. 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).