Common examples are when someone is called names overlooked for promotion denied training denied overtime and other benefits only offered unpopular shifts shouted at bullied selected for redundancy denied holiday entitlement Racism is bad for workers and employees You can suffer from loss of confidence stress humiliation insomnia low morale anxiety physical sickness bad work performance You may need time off work and even long-term sickness leave. And if found guilty of race discrimination damages are unlimited. It is unlawful to discriminate against any worker on racial grounds. There are three different kinds of discrimination forbidden by law. Direct Discrimination occurs when a worker is treated less favourably on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.
Direct discrimination is relatively easy to identify but can be more difficult to prove.
Indirect Discrimination is more complicated and can be difficult to prove in a court or tribunal. But if the job was working in a call-centre, good spoken English is needed to do the job properly. This would not therefore be indirect discrimination. But if the ad were for a job on an assembly line, it would be likely to be indirect discrimination because you do not need high standards of spoken English to operate routine machinery. Many cases are not as clear-cut as this, and you will need expert advice if you think you are suffering from indirect discrimination.