LRD guides and handbook July 2016

Health and safety law 2016

Chapter 11

Protection from harassment under the Equality Act 2010


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Workers may have a claim for harassment, where the behaviour is as a result of one of the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010), namely sex, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability, race, religion or belief, age, marriage and civil partnership.