people they are working with. You can read more about what to do if someone says been discriminated they’ve against in . Good practice tip for how you and your staff should behave Ideally, you want anyone who works for you to treat everyone they come across with dignity and respect. This will help you provide a good working environment (not just without discriminating but more generally) and can make your workers more productive. If your staff do unlawfully discriminate against their fellow workers or others in a work situation, your reputation may suffer even if the person on the receiving end does not bring a legal case against you. When your workers or agents may be personally liable A worker employed by you or your agent may be personally responsible for their own acts of discrimination, harassment or victimisation carried out during their employment or while acting with your authority. This applies where either: you are also liable as their employer or principal, or you would be responsible but you show that: you took all reasonable steps to prevent your worker discriminating against, harassing or victimising someone, or that your agent acted outside the scope of your authority. For example: A factory worker racially harasses their colleague. The employer would be liable for the actions, but is able to show that they took all reasonable worker’s steps to stop the harassment. The colleague can still claim compensation against the factory worker in an Employment Tribunal. But there is an exception to this. A worker or agent will not be responsible if their employer or principal has told them that there is nothing wrong with what they are doing and the employee or agent reasonably believes this to be true. It is a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, for an employer or principal to make a false statement which an employee or agent relies upon to carry out an unlawful act.
people they are working with. You can read more about what to do if someone says they’ve been discriminated against in . Good practice tip for how you and your staff should behave Ideally, you want anyone who works for you to treat everyone they come across with dignity and respect. This will help you provide a good working environment (not just without discriminating but more generally) and can make your workers more productive. If your staff do unlawfully discriminate against their fellow workers or others in a work situation, your reputation may suffer even if the person on the receiving end does not bring a legal case against you. When your workers or agents may be personally liable A worker employed by you or your agent may be personally responsible for their own acts of discrimination, harassment or victimisation carried out during their employment or while acting with your authority. This applies where either: you are also liable as their employer or principal, or you would be responsible but you show that: you took all reasonable steps to prevent your worker discriminating against, harassing or victimising someone, or that your agent acted outside the scope of your authority. For example: A factory worker racially harasses their colleague. The employer would be liable for the worker’s actions, but is able to show that they took all reasonable steps to stop the harassment. The colleague can still claim compensation against the factory worker in an Employment Tribunal. But there is an exception to this. A worker or agent will not be responsible if their employer or principal has told them that there is nothing wrong with what they are doing and the employee or agent reasonably believes this to be true. It is a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, for an employer or principal to make a false statement which an employee or agent relies upon to carry out an unlawful act.
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