NHS staff discounts and illegal discrimination

jimbo6977

NHS staff members are overwhelmingly (I have read 77%) female. Are businesses opening themselves to discrimination claims by offering discounts to NHS staff?

Ergates

No, obviously not.  Being employed by the NHS (or not) is not a protected status.

powerful_Rogue

jimbo6977 said:

NHS staff members are overwhelmingly (I have read 77%) female. Are businesses opening themselves to discrimination claims by offering discounts to NHS staff?

Clearly not!

What's your logic?

Sandtree

jimbo6977 said:

NHS staff members are overwhelmingly (I have read 77%) female. Are businesses opening themselves to discrimination claims by offering discounts to NHS staff?

Most ratios are extreme but not to that extent... but then most NHS staff are not well paid so the percentages may make sense.

But no, offering a discount to an employer doesn't automatically make it discriminatory even if that employer is skewed on gender, race etc. You would need to prove they selected that employer BECAUSE they had few blacks working for them etc rather than being neutral on the matter and instead offering it because they provide an essential service despite the low pay.

TELLIT01

jimbo6977 said:

NHS staff members are overwhelmingly (I have read 77%) female. Are businesses opening themselves to discrimination claims by offering discounts to NHS staff?

If an imbalance in staff gender was a bar to discounts, no company would risk doing it.  One staff member leaves and the ratio is no longer 50:50. 

Ditzy_Mitzy

Some business also offer discounts to our armed forces, which are 88% male give or take.  Are they opening themselves to discrimination claims too?  

Murphybear

One of our local hairdressers offers reductions for people in the armed forces,  NHS staff and pensioners.  Only during the week though.  Stretching a point, could that be seen as discrimination?  

Alderbank

Some of our local hairdressers won't serve men at all, only women.

Blatant discrimination

Ergates

Alderbank said:

Some of our local hairdressers won't serve men at all, only women.

Blatant discrimination

And they don't serve bald people either.  Or horses.

Andy_L

Alderbank said:

Some of our local hairdressers won't serve men at all, only women.

Blatant discrimination

Have you tried going in and asking them for a haircut ;-)

soolin

Our local fish and chip shop have a ‘pensioners’ special at fixed times , maybe I should feel discriminated against as unlike many of my friends I have no occupational pension and cannot therefore term myself a pensioner until I’m 67. One of my acquaintances got a pension at a very young age, early fifties from memory, and would therefore be entitled to the special offer even though she is younger than me.