A real, job-specific reason an employer can restrict a role to people with a particular protected characteristic, like requiring a specific ethnicity for an acting role. It has to be proportionate to the actual job, not just convenient for the employer.
In practice
On the recruitment discrimination guide, this covers cases like an acting role cast to a specific ethnicity, or a support workerA legal category that sits between employee and self-employed. Workers are entitled to certain rights including national minimum wage, paid holiday, and protection from unlawful deduction from wages, ... role at a women's refuge restricted to women.
Legislation covered