Discrimination is unequal treatment based on a criterion defined by law (sex, age, state of health, etc.) and in a field recognized by law (access to a service, employment, etc.). To date, nearly thirty discrimination criteria have been set by law.
Any distinction made between natural persons on the grounds of their origin, their sex, their marital status, their pregnancy, their physical appearance, their surname, their state of health, their disability, their their genetic characteristics, their customs, their sexual orientation or identity, their age, their political opinions, their trade union activities, their belonging or not belonging, real or supposed, to an ethnic group, a nation, a specific race or religion.
Any distinction made between legal persons on the basis of origin, sex, marital status, physical appearance, patronymic, state of health, disability, genetic characteristics, also constitutes discrimination. morals, sexual orientation or identity, age, political opinions, trade union activities, belonging or not belonging, real or supposed, to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a specific religion of the members or of certain members of these legal persons.
Any distinction made between people because they have suffered or refused to suffer acts of sexual harassment as defined in article 222-33 or testified to such facts constitutes discrimination, including, in the case mentioned in I of same article, if the comments or behaviors were not repeated.
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