C1Part III Unlawful Discrimination

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Acts of unlawful discrimination

C218 Discrimination against contract workers.

1

This section applies to any work for a person (“the principal”) which is available to be done by individuals (“contract workers”)—

a

who are employed not by the principal himself but by another person, who supplies them under a contract made with the principal, and

b

who, if they were instead employed by the principal to do that work, would be in his employment in Northern Ireland.

2

It shall be unlawful for the principal, in relation to work to which this section applies, to discriminate against a contract worker—

a

in the terms on which he allows him to do that work, or

b

by not allowing him to do it or continue to do it, or

c

in the way he affords him access to benefits or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford him access to them, or

d

by subjecting him to any other detriment.