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What does Sex discrimination mean? Sex discrimination describes unlawful less favourable treatment, or unjustified disadvantage caused by a neutral rule, because a person is male or female. In practice it arises in employment (recruitment, terms, promotion, dismissal), vocational training, professional membership, education, housing, public functions and access to goods and services. The concept is defined in legislation: in England & Wales and Scotland by the Equality Act 2010; in Northern Ireland by the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 and the Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970; and in Ireland by the Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015 and the Equal Status Acts 2000–2018. Usage is broadly consistent...

Employment Tribunal ET3 Defence Precedent: Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Victimisation and Constructive Dismissal with Limitation and Reasonable Steps Defences (Equality Act 2010—England, Wales and Scotland)

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[ Insert in para 6.1 of response form ET3 ]

Many of the issues raised by the Claimant predate her ET1 by over three months; accordingly, those allegations fall outside the time limits set by section 123 of the Equality Act 2010 and the tribunal lacks jurisdiction to determine them.
Subject only to the fact that there were four female employees at the premises, including the Claimant, paragraph 1 of the Grounds of Claim is admitted.
It is accepted that the Claimant and [ insert name ] spoke on [ insert date ] regarding sales reports. It is further accepted that the Claimant told [ insert name ] he would need to wait until after lunch for the sales report. [ Insert name ] considered the Claimant’s tone to be angry and curt and asked whether she was all right. It is denied that he said, ‘No need to bite my head off; is it that time of the month?’ or anything to that effect...

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