Equality Act

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mgdavid wrote: »

that would clearly discriminate against people who lived within a few miles and were willing and able to cycle to work.

Which the employer is quite entitled to do!

It is only a small handful of types of discrimination that are prohibited by law such as race, gender, disability (in most circumstances but not all) etc. If the employer want to discriminate in any other way it is perfectly lawful.

KiKi

saintjammyswine wrote: »

Again, why does disability come up in this as a discriminatory factor?

I guess because statistically someone with a disability is less likely to be able to get a driving licence. It may be a very small difference, proportionately, but it's still a difference.

agrinnall

saintjammyswine wrote: »

Again, why does disability come up in this as a discriminatory factor?

I did say 'could', but I would have thought it was pretty obvious why it might discriminate against disabled people, and utterly unnecessarily in the stated example advert.

I'll elaborate slightly. I would say that disability is the only one of the protected characteristics in which discrimination would be a factor; anybody in one of the others could, in most circumstances, get a driving licence. But there are people in the disabled group who cannot get one, for instance, all registered blind people. So making a DL a requirement automatically discriminates against blind people.