Sex
Men and women are entitled to equal treatment at work. An employer should not favour one sex or the other when hiring, training, or offering promotions and other opportunities.
Employers should also not set unreasonable requirements that are harder for one sex to meet.
Here’s an example of sex discrimination:
| Ben started work in a department store. His first shift was in the children’s clothing department, sorting stock in the back room. He asked if he could get counter service work too. He was told by his team leader that, ‘for obvious reasons, we put the women on the counters here’. |
Employers can, however, restrict jobs to one sex if there is a genuine need for males or for females to do that job.
Last updated on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 17:31.
