According the Jersey Advisory and Conciliation Service’s annual report just 11 out of 175 claims made during 2016 were discrimination cases – a much lower proportion than in the UK, where the majority of claims are discrimination-based.
Jersey has introduced a raft of new anti-discrimination laws during the last few years. Race discrimination was introduced in 2014, followed by sexual discrimination in 2015 and age last year.
However, the report states that the new laws have not had much impact on the volume of claims dealt with by the service.
JACS director Patricia Rowan said that she believed that the low number of discrimination cases was due to good awareness of how to behave in the workplace in Jersey.
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