Discrimination consists of conduct or words or practices which disadvantages or advantages people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin, nationality, religious belief, gender, disability, sexuality, age, geographical location or other status.
Harassment and bullying is also unacceptable. East Riding of Yorkshire Council's definition of discrimination includes direct and indirect forms of discrimination.
Direct discrimination - occurs when a person is treated less favourably or more favourably than others would be, on grounds that are not justifiable, such as race, gender, disability or other status.
Indirect discrimination - consists of treatment that appears to be fair and is applied to everybody equally, but has an unjustifiable adverse impact upon a particular group.
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council's policy statement on discrimination is:
"The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to fulfilling its roles as an employer, service provider, purchaser of goods or services and community leader without discrimination in terms of colour, culture or ethnic origin, nationality, religious belief, gender, disability, age, sexuality, geographical location or any other status. All Members, employees and agents of the council must seek to eliminate discrimination and promote equality and good relations within all communities."
Discrimination can occur across society in many, ways including:
Disability
Age discrimination
Race discrimination
Religious discrimination
Sexual discrimination
Human Rights
Harassment
Any discriminatory incident reported to the council is treated seriously. The council is NOT required to publish details of incidents, so there will never be a breach of confidentiality in relation to any of this information.
In order to report the incident, see our Distrimination and Harassment section on the A-Z directory.
