RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE

Professor Lucy Vickers, Professor of Law, Oxford Brookes University

Direct Discrimination

Less favourable treatment ‘because of religion or belief’

Genuine occupational requirement exception

‘religious ethos organisation’ exception for genuine occupational requirements

Indirect Discrimination

Applying a neutral criterion to everyone which ‘puts persons [of the religion in question] at a
disadvantage compared to others’ and

which cannot be shown to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim….

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