Analyzing Religious Discrimination Against Women in UK Workplaces

This presentation explores the issue of religious discrimination against women in UK workplaces, emphasizing the importance of employment law, particularly the Equality Act, in protecting employee rights. It defines discrimination, differentiates between direct and indirect forms, and highlights the obligations of employers to foster an inclusive and respectful work environment. The presentation also addresses the challenges women face, the legal advice available, and practical steps employers can take to prevent religious discrimination, such as implementing equality and diversity policies and promoting a culture of equality. It concludes that a safe, harassment-free workplace is both an employer's obligation and an employee's right.

Discrimination against women in the
work place based on religious believes
in UK

Table of Contents
• Employment law
• Importance of Employment law
• Discrimination
• Discrimination at workplace
• Types of discrimination
• Employer’s obligations
• How to prevent it?
• Conclusion
• References

Employment law
• The employment law in UK has been placed to make sure
that the employees as well as the employers are given
protection against each other so that their rights are not
violated.
• Importance of Employment law: The employment law
really exist in order to protect a balance of the workers as
well as the employers in an equivalent manner.

Discrimination on the basis of religion
Discrimination is something when an individual treats the
other in an unfair manner in comparison to any other.
Discrimination based on the religion is a direct
discrimination as well as indirect also and is also illegal.
Religious beliefs in workplace
It is important for an organisation to focus on development
of a major internal environment in order to lead the
marketplace. The company must take care of all needs of
workers in a religious manner to promote job satisfaction
of the employees.

Equality Act covering religious
discrimination
This legislations provides that there must be no discrimination at the workplace against any
worker due to the following
• Any employee due to the particular religion.
• An employee who holds a specific philosophical belief
• When an employee is being connected to the other who has the belief or a religion. It is
known as the discrimination by an association.
• When a person believes that it is of specific religion or belief. This is called as the
discrimination by the perception

Discrimination at workplace
When there is a diverse population in UK, there comes a big range of varied belief and religion
systems. The employers should be very careful as to not discriminate against any of the person
at the workplace due to its philosophical or the religious belief which it may or may not hold.
There are various rights of the employees as well as the obligation of the employers against the
religious discrimination.
Issues faced by women at workplace
In the functioning of a business, it is important to respect woman and understand their needs
and demands in a precise manner 3(Vickers L). The woman face various difficulties at
workplace like harassment and abusing.

Employer’s obligation
There are different obligations of the employer regardless of its
own belief system which ensures that there must not be any kind
of direct as well as the indirect discrimination against any
employee due to its perceived or actual belief or religion or the
lack of belief or religion or the association with any person on a
specific religion.

Compare and contrast different sources of
legal advice
There are many organizations who have the written policy on the equality as well as diversity
at the workplace yet the religious discrimination prevails at the workplaces of UK. There are
different ways in which the employers can prevent the religious discrimination at the
workplace which includes the following-
• Implementing the equality as well as diversity policy
• policy is being accessible to every employee
• Fostering the culture of equality
• Awareness regarding reporting of discrimination case

Conclusion
It is concluded from the above PPT that the Equality Act is the main legislation under the
employment law which protects the rights of the employees against any kind of discrimination
which may arise due to religious belief. It is the obligation of employers as well as the rights of
employees to have safe working environment at the workplace which is free from any harassment
of victimization against the religious discrimination

References
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