Employment Equality Act 1998
Positive action permitted.
F59 [ 33. — Nothing in this Part or Part II shall render unlawful measures maintained or adopted with a view to ensuring full equality in practice between employees, being measures —
( a ) to prevent or compensate for disadvantages linked to any of the discriminatory grounds (other than the gender ground),
( b ) to protect the health or safety at work of persons with a disability, or
( c ) to create or maintain facilities for safeguarding or promoting the integration of such persons into the working environment. ]
Annotations
Amendments:
F59
Substituted (18.072004) by Equality Act 2004 (24/2004), s. 22, commenced on enactment.
Modifications (not altering text):
Editorial Notes:
E23
Previous affecting provision: word “traveller” in subs. (1)(c) capitalised (25.10.2000) by Equal Status Act 2000 (8/2000), s. 39 and sch. para. (e), S.I. No. 351 of 2000; superseded as per F-note above.