Understanding the different types of discrimination
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Key learnings
- There are nine protected characteristics that everyone in the UK has the right to defence from prejudice.
- Each of these characteristics fall into five types of discrimination - direct or indirect discrimination, positive discrimination, discrimination by association and discrimination by perception.
- To prevent allegations of discrimination in your workplace, you should introduce policies and procedures that informs employees on what’s acceptable conduct.
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