Family Status

"Family status" refers to "the inter-relationship that arises from bonds of marriage, consanguinity or legal adoption, including of course, the ancestral relationship, whether legitimate, illegitimate, or by adoption, as well as the relationships between spouses, siblings, in-laws, uncles or aunts, and nephews or nieces, cousins, etc."

Discrimination related to the fact that spouses work together for the same employer may be considered under the grounds of both marital status and family status.