BUS-294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Equal Pay Act 1970, Race Relations Act 1965, Equality Act 2010
20 Jun 2020
School
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Contracts may have express terms, implied terms and implied duties. Implied terms are either obvious terms or statutory imposed terms. Such as pay wages, ensure work environment, provide duty of care. Obedience and cooperation, loyalty, mutual trust and confidence. A woman went to court for equal pay. Court held that it was a misguided principle of socialist philanthropy. This was rectified through a number of acts. Race relations act 1965, 1976 and the equal pay act 1970. Employment is part 5 of the equality act, which consolidated the previous acts. It includes a broad definition of employment. It prohibits discrimination at all stages of employment. This includes hiring, terms, access to promotion, training and dismissal. There are certain protected characteristics defined you can claim against. Direct discrimination occurs when someone is treated less favourably due to a protected characteristic than they would otherwise be treated.
