Direct payments guidance

Every employee has the right to work in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

As an employer, under the Equality Act 2010, you have a duty to take reasonable steps to ensure your employees work in an environment free from:

• Less favourable treatment (discrimination),
• Threatening, intimidating, offensive or humiliating behaviour (harassment)
• Further detriment because of a complaint of harassment or discrimination being raised (victimisation)

Where these conducts are linked to one or more protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010: age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, religion, race, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership.