What is Discrimination?

Discrimination is the process of favoring one group of people over other groups which leads to the unfair treatment of others.

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Discrimination definition

Discrimination is the process of favoring one group of people over other groups which leads to the unfair treatment of others.

In business discrimination occurs throughout:

- Recruitment process

- Employment tests

- Screening

- Training

Types of discrimination

- Direct discrimination: when distinction is made based on age, sex, disability, race etc.

- Indirect discrimination: when there's a rule or a policy which supports a person of specific age, sex, disability, race etc.

- Perceptive discrimination: when a person is perceived to be of a specific age, sex, disability or race, irrespective of him/her actually being of that particular age, sex, disability or race.

- Associative discrimination: when a person is discriminated based on his/her association with another person of a specific age, sex, disability or race.

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