Marital or partnership status
Everyone is entitled to equal treatment in work, regardless of their marital or domestic partnership status.
This includes being single, married, separated, divorced, widowed or living with a partner, either of opposite sex or the same sex. It doesn't include a boyfriend or girlfriend that you don't live with.
Here’s an example:
| Chad, who is single, worked for a finance company. He was eager to work his way up the ladder, including by accepting posts in regional towns. When he applied for a promotion to a remote mining town, the company said they preferred to send married staff out to those sorts of places because a single man might ‘get into trouble’. When Chad asked what they meant, he was told that in some of these towns there is a serious drug problem and being married helps to stop a person getting involved with all that. Chad is being discriminated against because he is single. |
De facto couples who have lived together for at least 3 years, or have had a child together, are legally recognised in SA and have certain civil rights. Find out more about the rights of de facto couples, including same-sex couples.
Last updated on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:59.
