What is Indirect Discrimination?
Indirect discrimination is when your employer applies a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) to everyone at work in the same way, but it puts people with a particular protected characteristic at a particular disadvantage [section 19 Equality Act 2010 (EQA 2010)]. It applies to all the protected characteristics except pregnancy and maternity. Your employer has a defence if they can show that the PCP is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
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