The intention of writing this paper was to show the way in which Croatian legislation guarantees protection and achieves the principle of equal treatment and prohibition of discrimination in private law between the discriminator as injurer, which most often occurs in the role of employer of the injured party, and discriminated person as injured party, the victim, ie the person appearing in the role of the employee of the injurer. In addition to citing various sources within which the prohibition of discrimination is guaranteed, the paper also presents the regulation of the prohibition of discrimination in private law relations in the European Union and a comparison with the regulation in two basic laws, namely the Anti-Discrimination Act (ADA) and the Gender Equality Act (GEA). Also, the paper presents possible forms of discrimination elaborated through examples, in order to facilitate the understanding of the distinction between manifestations of discrimination. In doing so, special attention is paid to the regulation of protection against discrimination in the event of its occurrence on the basis of age, disability, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic affiliation and nationality. At the end of the paper, cases are elaborated in which less favorable treatment will not be considered discrimination, more precisely exceptions to the prohibition of discrimination, and in which ways the injured person can obtain protection from discriminatory treatment, either before such treatment or after the occurrence of discriminatory treatment. An important role is played by judicial protection, within which the injured party can file an individual lawsuit in court requesting a finding of discrimination, prohibition or elimination of discrimination, compensation for property and non-pecuniary damage and publication of a verdict finding a violation of equal treatment in the media, then temporary measures, penalties for misdemeanor liability, the Office of the Ombudsman and offices od special ombudspersons, ie ombudswomen, and the institute of a joint lawsuit.