As I have said, I am assuming that placebobutton considers that refusing to let premises to benefit claimants will be indirectly discriminatory on the grounds of disability because disabled people are more likely to be out of or unable to work and therefore in receipt of social security benefits.
Sen argues that Rawls's difference principle would not justify any redistribution to the disabled on grounds of disability.
An employment tribunal hearing the case referred it to the European Court of Justice for a ruling on whether EU laws banning employment discrimination on the grounds of disability cover those caring for the disabled, as well as the sufferers themselves.
In a highly significant judgement the High Court ruled that the Work and Pensions Secretary had discriminated on the grounds of disability against unpaid carers who look after severely disabled people for more than 35 hours a week.
His He welcomed a bill to strengthen the Hearing Aid Council and, in 1991, drafted the civil rights (disabled persons) bill to outlaw discrimination on grounds of disability.
There were also more reports of discrimination on the grounds of disability than for gender, ethnic background or age.
The difficulties in classification are little greater than those faced in deciding who qualifies for protection on grounds of disabilities that limit the activities of daily life, as shown by conflicting decisions in numerous legal cases involving obesity.
In the year to end March 2010 there were 95,200 claims relating to the working time directive, 75,500 for unauthorised deduction from wages, 38,310 for discrimination on grounds of sex, disability, race, religion or gender orientation and 37,400 for equal pay.
You may say some were overdue: in 1996 discrimination on grounds of sex, disability and family status became explicitly illegal; in 2009 the ordinance was expanded to include race.
"Such material may include, but is not limited to, offensive language, violence, sex, sexual violence, humiliation, distress, violation of human dignity, discriminatory treatment or language (for example on the grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion, beliefs and sexual orientation)," states the code.
More than 1,400 civil servants working for the DWP said they had experienced discrimination, harassment or bullying on the grounds of a disability, according to the department's latest staff survey – up from just over 1,000 reported in the same survey in 2014.
