The details are set out in the Programme for Government. It is intended to introduce two measures, the first of which will be an Employment Equality Bill confined to employment and employment related areas. Broadly speaking it will seek to make discrimination unlawful in an employment or employment related context against any person because of membership of one of the categories set out in the Programme for Government, that is, on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, handicap or disability, race, colour, nationality, age and membership of the travelling community.
The second measure will be an equal status Bill and will cover the same categories of people as enunciated in connection with the Employment Equality Bill but will relate to non-employment areas, such as the supply of goods and services.