"Favourable treatment" refers to showing or giving someone special advantages, benefits, or positive treatment. It means treating someone in a positive or advantageous way compared to others. Full definition
Direct Discrimination: This is when someone encounters less favourable treatment because they are married or in a civil partnership. (tribunalclaim.com)
It opens the door to expectations by lobbyists of favourable treatment resulting from the donation. (canadianbusiness.com)
The difference in treatment therefore only arose between employees who wished to give active expression to a belief and those that did not and this could not constitute less favourable treatment based on religion. (mooreblatch.com)