Discrimination

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Discrimination is the unjust treatment of people with a protected characteristic. It involves treating someone differently or worse than someone else on the basis of that protected characteristic.

Even if you did not intend to treat someone less favourably or to discriminate against them, if you treat someone differently because of a protected characteristic, this could be considered as discrimination.

Examples of discrimination include, but are not limited to:

  • Racism: for example, the use of racist comments or language.
  • Sexism: for example, treating women less favourably than men or vice versa.
  • Ageism: for example, assuming a younger person or older person is incapable of performing their job.
  • Disability: for example, refusing to employ someone who is disabled, even if the disability doesn’t actually prevent them from carrying out the job to a high standard.
  • Homophobia, biphobia or transphobia: for example, excluding a colleague from social activities or workplace conversations because they are from the LGBT community.

Such forms of discrimination can be considered offensive. It is important then to choose your words carefully to avoid disrespecting someone.

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