The Prevention of Discrimination (Guernsey) Ordinance 2022
("Ordinance") will come into force on 1 October 2023. The
Ordinance means that, for the first time, Guernsey will have a
comprehensive equality framework in place, making it unlawful to
discriminate against a person on five new "protected
grounds" – disability, race, religion or belief, sexual
orientation, and carer status.
For those employers who have a presence in Jersey, the Isle of
Man and/or the UK, they might be forgiven for thinking that they
will already be compliant with the Ordinance since they are used to
operating in jurisdictions with equality legislation, and so
don't need to do anything. At first glance, such a view may be
understandable, as just how different can two laws be that
basically do the same thing?
