What are the types of discrimination?
• Direct discrimination. An employer directly discriminates against an employee if it treats the employee less favourably than it treats, or would treat, another person in the same or similar circumstances (the “comparator”), and does so on grounds of one of the above characteristics. • Indirect discrimination. An employer indirectly discriminates against an employee if it applies to the employee an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice (PCP) that puts a group (defined by reference to any of the types listed above) at a particular disadvantage compared to other groups. The employee must also suffer a disadvantage as a member of that group and the employer cannot show that its PCP is objectively justified.
