Victimisation is a term used in discrimination law to describe action by an employer, against an employee, in retaliation for involvement in bringing, or supporting, a complaint of discrimination.
Examples include refusal to promote an employee because he or she had invoked a grievance procedure, or for giving evidence against the employer at a tribunal.
Victimisation can also take place after employment has finished. For example, where an employer refuses to follow its normal post-employment procedure and fails to give a reference to a former employee because he or she had begun a tribunal claim for discrimination against it.
Complaints about victimisation should be made to an employment tribunal as soon as possible (preferably having used the employer's grievance procedure), but no more than 3 months after the date of the act being complained of.
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