Originally Posted by
marchino61
Discrimination law does not apply to the self-employed. Nor does any other employment law.
Discrimination law applies to EVERYBODY.
15 years or so ago a West Indian self employed plumber won a case against a housing management services company operating in Central London after he discovered that he wasn’t being given work in certain wealthy areas because the people who lived there ‘preferred to see a white face’ if a tradesman needed to come into their home. These things are notoriously difficult to prove but this guy was lucky enough to be contacted by someone who worked for the management company and told him what was going on.
The case was brought under the Equalities Act (or probably the Race Relations Act as it was then) and it is believed that the guy received ‘substantial compensation’.