# The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, Paragraph 13: Detriment and dismissal

Extent: N.I.

(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act by his employer done on the ground that he exercised or sought to exercise his right to be accompanied in accordance with paragraph 9.
(2) A worker has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground that he accompanied or sought to accompany an employee pursuant to a request under paragraph 9.
(3) Article 71 of the 1996 Order (complaints to industrial tribunals) shall apply in relation to contraventions of sub-paragraph (1) or (2) as it applies in relation to contraventions of certain Articles of that Order.
(4) Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply where the worker is an employee and the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part XI of the 1996 Order).
(5) An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of Part XI of the 1996 Order as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that he—
(a) exercised or sought to exercise his right to be accompanied in accordance with paragraph 9; or
(b) accompanied or sought to accompany an employee pursuant to a request under that paragraph.
(6) Articles 163 to 167 of the 1996 Order (interim relief) shall apply in relation to dismissal for the reason specified in sub-paragraph (5)(a) or (b) as they apply in relation to dismissal for a reason specified in Article 163(1)(b) of that Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/schedule/5/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-13
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