Business Studies - AQA - GCSE - Employment Laws and Discrimination
1 Equal Pay Act
1.1 1970
1.2 Male and female equal pay
2 Sex Discrimination Act(s)
2.1 1975 & 1986
2.2 Male and female equal treatment
3 Race Relations Act
3.1 1976
3.2 White people cannot
discriminate against
ethnic minorities
4 Disability Discrimination Act
4.1 1995
4.2 Disabled people cannot
be discriminated against
5 Employment Equality Regulations
5.1 2003
5.2 People cannot be
discriminated against because
of their religion or belief.
6 Equality Act
6.1 2010
6.2 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
7.1 Direct Discrimination
7.1.1 Treating one person less
favourably than another purely on
grounds of a sex/race/gender etc.
7.2 Indirect Discrimination
7.2.1 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.
7.2.2 Imposing a requirement that
cannot be shown to be
justifiable by the needs of the
job.
7.3 Fair dismissal reasons
7.3.1 Conduct
7.3.1.1 How the
employee
does things
7.3.1.2 Bad conduct
7.3.2 Capability
7.3.2.1 If the employee
can handle the
tasks set for
them
7.3.2.2 Poor capability
7.3.3 Redundancy
7.3.3.1 The job no longer exists at
the place of employment
7.3.4 Statutory requirements
7.3.4.1 Legal entitlement
7.3.4.1.1 Because of what the law states
7.3.4.2 Robbery/murder etc.
7.3.5 Other reasonable issues
7.4 Constructive dismissal
7.4.1 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).