The Employment Equality Act pertains to discrimination in the employment context. Discrimination occurs where (1) a person is treated less favourably than another person is (or has been or would be) treated in a comparable situation on any of specified “discriminatory grounds,” or (2) a person who is associated with another person (i) is treated, by virtue of that association, less favourably than a person who is not so associated is, has been or would be treated in a comparable situation, and (ii) similar treatment of that other person on any of the discriminatory grounds would, by virtue of paragraph (a), constitute discrimination. (Section 6(1)). The Act renders discrimination unlawful on the following grounds: gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, disability, race, age, or membership of the Traveler community.
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