Version as at
1 July 2024
(4)
Human Rights Act 1993
Part 2 s 62A
(f)
vocational training, or the making of an application for vocational train‐
ing:
(g)
access to places, vehicles, and facilities:
(h)
access to goods and services:
(i)
access to land, housing, or other accommodation:
(j)
education:
(k)
participation in fora for the exchange of ideas and information.
Where a person complains of sexual harassment, no account shall be taken of
any evidence of the person’s sexual experience or reputation.
Section 62(3)(k): inserted, on 3 July 2015, by section 37 of the Harmful Digital Communications Act
2015 (2015 No 63).
62A Adverse treatment in employment of people affected by family violence
(1)
It is unlawful for a person (in the course of that person’s involvement in
any of the areas to which this subsection is applied by subsection (2)) to
treat adversely any other person, or to make an implied or overt threat to
treat adversely any other person, on the ground that the other person is, or is
suspected or assumed or believed to be, a person affected by family violence.
(2)
The areas to which subsection (1) applies are—
(3)
(4)
(a)
the making of an application for employment:
(b)
employment, which term includes unpaid work.
In this section, an employer treats adversely an employee if the employer—
(a)
dismisses that employee, in circumstances in which other employees
employed by that employer on work of that description are not or would
not be dismissed or subjected to such detriment; or
(b)
refuses or omits to offer or afford to that employee the same terms
of employment, conditions of work, fringe benefits, or opportunities
for training, promotion, and transfer as are made available for other
employees of the same or substantially the same qualifications, experi‐
ence, or skills employed in the same or substantially similar circum‐
stances; or
(c)
subjects that employee to any detriment, in circumstances in which other
employees employed by that employer on work of that description are
not or would not be subjected to such detriment; or
(d)
retires that employee, or requires or causes that employee to retire or
resign.
For the purposes of this section,—
child has the meaning given to it in section 8 of the Family Violence Act 2018
family violence has the meaning given to it in section 9 the Family Violence
Act 2018
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